الموت ليس نهاية كل شيء , وهذا مؤكد , ولكنه مؤلم إلى حدّ لا يمكن تصوّره , وتحمّل هذا الألم غير المحدود صعب إلى حدّ أن جزءاً من عقلي يرى مخرجه الوحيد نسيان هذا الأمر والإندفاع بقوة نحو نوم هانئ .
إنكم وحيدون عندما تموتون .
When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answe...
A Good Education Removes the Barriers Between Rich and Poor
إذا فتحتِ عينيكِ الجميلتين هاتين فلن يصيبكِ مكروه ، لا تقلقي .
When we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest moment selecting it in retrospective
The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.
In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself?
If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.
If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too.
إن الإنسان لا يعرفُ ما يفكرُ فيه بدقة في أي وقت . أنا أفكرُ على النحو التالي : أقول عبارةً ما أحياناً ، و في أثناء قولي تلك العبارة أجدُ أنني فهمتها ، و لكنني عندما أفهمها أفكرُ بعكسها واثقة .
In twenty years’ time—in other words, when you’re thirty-seven years old—you will have understood at last that all the evil in the world—I mean the poverty and ignorance of the poor and the cunning an...
For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
For me it has always been a city of ruins and of end-of-empire melancholy. I’ve spent my life either battling with this melancholy or (like all İstanbullus) making it my own.
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
All the happiness and beauty that life had to offer only revealed themselves when his mind drifted off into fantasies of a world far removed from his own.
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in the paradise where happy mares and stallion live, open your eyes wide an...
What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and t...
I have in all honesty believed that two people with similar names must have similar characters, that an unfamiliar word - be it Turkish or foreign - must be semantically similar to a word spelt like i...
The difference lies in the fact that in Istanbul the remains of a glorious past civilization are everywhere visible. No matter how ill-kept, no matter how neglected or hemmed in they are by concrete m...