There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares ab...
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold...
I'm a dog, and because you humans are much less rational beasts than I, you're telling yourselves, 'Dogs don't talk.' Nethertheless, you seem to believe a story in which corpses speak and characters u...
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments...
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
For a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.
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...
هل العشق يجعل الإنسان غبيّاً أم أن الأغبياء فقط يعشقون !
شعرتُ ببرودة الثلج فتذكّرتُ أنني لا طفل ، و لا عجوز . بشرتي أشعرتني بالعالم بسعادة .
شعرت بدفء في داخلي و أنا أعمل , كما شعرت أنني من عباد الله الصالحين . ثمّ دعوت إلى الله مطوّلاً لكي لا يحرمني شعور الصلاح هذا .
You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over,but if you have a book in your hand, no matter how complex or difficult, when you have finished it, you can, if you wish,...
Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.
What is love?I don’t know.Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit houses, gardens, or rooms; or whenever he watches her sittin...
Love is the urgency to hold fast to another and to be together in the same place. It's the desire to keep the world out by embracing another. It is the yearning to find a safe harbor for the human sou...
No one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it
When I was far from Füsun, the world troubled me; it was a puzzle whose pieces were all out of place. The moment I saw her, they all fit back together, reminding me that the world was a beautiful, mea...
It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gift, would everything have turned out differently?
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.