Quotes from Orhan Pamuk

But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy. This is what had happened to the characters in my story: for this reason heroes could never tolerate being themselves, for this reason they always wanted to be someone else.

Walking fueled his imagination and reminded him that there was another realm within our world, hidden away behind the walls of a mosque, in a collapsing wooden mansion, or inside a cemetery.

My fear, which I shared with everyone in the Turkish secular bourgeoisie, was not of God but of the fury of those who believed in Her too much.

Bu otobüsler insan? istediÄŸi yere en sonunda götürür. Otobüslere inan?yorum. MeleÄŸe de bazan, hay?r her zaman inan?yorum, evet her zaman, hay?r, bazan.

Toplumlar?n hayat?n? belirleyen önemli ÅŸeyler insanlar?n birbirlerine benzeyen yanlar?ndan deÄŸil, benzemeyen yanlar?ndan ç?k?yordu.

Y, al igual que ocurre con nuestras vidas, la mayor parte de las veces es por otros por quienes nos enteramos del significado de la ciudad en la que vivimos.

No era en absoluto de esos padres que riñen, prohíben y castigan. Especialmente en los primeros años de mi infancia, cuando salía por ahí y jugaba con él, sentía que el mundo era un lugar divertido al que el hombre venía para ser feliz.

Asl?nda hemen evlenelim demeliydim ona. Toplumumuzu ayakta tutan pek çok saÄŸlam evlilik bu tür f?rt?nal? ve mutsuz aÅŸklar? unutmak için yap?lm??t?r.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words.

By then I'd already learned that thoughts sometimes come to us in words, and sometimes in images. There were some thoughts - such as a memory of running under the pouring rain, and how it felt - that I couldn't even begin to put into words … Yet their image was clear in my mind. And there were other things that I could describe in words but were otherwise impossible to visualize: black light, my mother's death, infinity.

Todas las civilizaciones, como la gente que hay en los cementerios, son mortales. Y nosotros sabemos, como el hecho de que vamos a morir, que las civilizaciones que han llegado a su término no volverán nunca más.

Sanki buras? herkesin unuttuÄŸu bir yerdi ve kar sessizce dünyan?n sonuna ya??yordu.

Ä°stanbul'da, a??rl??? biraz deÄŸiÅŸse de, milyonlarca kiÅŸinin yar?m yüzy?ld?r kat?k olarak yaln?zca bu ekmeÄŸi yediÄŸini hat?rlatmak ve hayat?n bir tekrar olduÄŸuna, ama sonra her ÅŸeyin ac?mas?zl?kla unutulduÄŸuna iÅŸaret etmek de istiyorum.

YaÅŸland?kça hem camiye daha çok giden, hem de daha çok rak? içenler gibi olmam??t? Mevlut, az içiyordu

Çok doÄŸru," dedi Süleyman. Bana kal?rsa bana hak verdiÄŸi için deÄŸil, Hazreti Peygamber'li, Kuran-? Kerim'li bir lafa asla kar?? ç?kamad??? için

We embraced. This so pleased me that I felt no guilt. I let myself be borne away by sweet emotion. I hugged him tighter. I let him kiss me, and I kissed him back. And as we kissed, it was as if the entire world had entered a gentle twilight. I wished everybody could embrace each other the way we did. I faintly recalled that love was supposed to be like this.

I've accepted the city into which I was born in the same way I've accepted my body and my gender.

Of course he was conceited: having devoured most of what had been accomplished before his time, he turned up his nose at it all; he had no doubt he'd do better; he had no equal; he knew he was more intelligent and creative than anyone else. In short, he was an average youth.

Üstelik bizim memlekette dikbaÅŸl? olmak, kendi kendine karar vermek hoÅŸ bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ki! Ä°nsan her zaman daa iyi bilen, daha iyi düÅŸünen birine kendini emanet etmeli, birisine baÄŸlanmal?, bir inanc? benimsemeli.

Ahora sé que no cambiaría nada demostrar que la vida que vivimos no es sino el sueño de otro.

Hala da düÅŸünürüm:Haf?zam?z?n,biz yaÅŸland?kça fazla yük ta??mak istemeyen huysuz bir yük hayvan? gibi att??? a??rl?klar en sevmediÄŸi yükler midir,en a??rlar? m?,yoksa en kolay düÅŸenler mi?

T?pk? muhteÅŸem bir Despot gibi DoÄŸu, güce ve göz kamaÅŸt?ran ?????yla insanlar? yere çalr, insan orada daha yürümeyi öÄŸrenmeden diz çökmek, konuÅŸmay? öÄŸrenmeden dua etmek zorunda kal?r.

Explícale la sensación del rojo a alguien que nunca lo ha visto, maestro. -Si lo tocáramos con la punta de un dedo sería entre el hierro y el cobre. Si lo cogiéramos en la mano, quemaría. Si lo porbáramos tendría un sabor pleno como de carne salada. Si nos lo lleváramos a la boca, nos la llenaría. Si lo oliéramos, olería a caballo. Si oliera como una flor se parecería a una margarita, no a una rosa roja

The tree is bent when it is young