My prolonged study of these photographs led me to appreciate the importance of preserving certain moments for prosperity, and as time moved forwards I also came to see what a powerful influence these...
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an...
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happ...
لعلّهم اعتادوا . ما أسوأ هذا !لإن الإنسان وهو ميّت يشعر بإن الحياة التي تركها خلفه تسير كما تركها , وكما كانت في الماضي.
The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was no...
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home...
Like most Turkish men of my world who entered into this predicament, I never paused to wonder what might be going on in the mind of the woman with whom I was madly in love, and what her dreams might b...
Kederden ölüyormuş gibi yaparak yürüdüm karanlığa kederden ölerek.
Kafamda bir tuhaflık var, dedi Mevlut. Ne yapsam bu alemde yapayalnız hissediyorum kendimi. Ben yanındayken bir daha asla öyle hissetmeyeceksin, dedi Rayiha anaç bir tavırla. Mevlut çayhanenin camları...
Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togethe...
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitut...
If the soulmate is absent there is no need for the soul
I read somewhere that luck is not blind, just illiterate. Luck, I mused, is a palliative for those who don't know probability and statistics.
En realidad nadie sabe que está viviendo el momento más feliz de su vida mientras lo vive.
But just like believing in God, falling in love is such a sacred feeling that it leaves you with no room for any other passions.
Does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.
Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it...
كان خلفي زمن لا محدود حتّى قبل أن أولد , وبعد أن متّ أيضاً , زمن لا ينتهي !لم أفكر بهذا وأنا حي . كنت أعيش وسط ضوء بين زمنين مظلمين .
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey,...