Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!

You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!

Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

Don't try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth!

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

For the people whose minds are in the past, even a heavy rain cannot bring them to the present time!

If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

If you want to know how fast the time is, here is the answer: Tomorrow is already a history!

Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!