Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

We can see a man smiling without legs or without hands, but we can't see a man smiling without hope!

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

We determine our own price; it is always good to set our price to infinity so that no one can buy us!

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

We don't like the storms because they challenge us! But for this very reason exactly, we must like them! Whoever challenges us gives us the opportunity to rise higher!

We find life in art and we find art in life!

We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!

We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!

We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!

We love the morning, because we know that there will be night soon! We love the night, because we know that there will be morning soon! Who loves the morning if there shall be no night? Who loves the night if there shall be no morning?

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!