Elif > Elif's Quotes

“Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In the time she was reading it, her life would be rewritten.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“A saint belongs to all humanity.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“My life is complete and fulfilled, in that I have been blessed with the three things I hold most dear: knowledge, virtue, and the capability to help others find God.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Personally, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“There were many legends about these rocks and behind every legend a story of forbidden love.”
― Elif Shafak, Honor

“But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere…”
― Elif Shafak

“Eşyalarla ilişkimiz yanılsama üstüne kurulu. Sanıyoruz ki onların sahibiyiz. Oysa efendisi değil, sadece hikayesi vardır eşyaların.”
― Elif Shafak, The Flea Palace

“Yalnızlığa kadife kılıflar biçebilmek için ya başkalarına öykünüyor ya da başkalarını kendimize benzetmeye uğraşıyoruz boş yere.”
― Elif Shafak, Med-cezir

“Gökten kafana ne yağarsa yağsın asla küfretmeyeceksin. Buna yağmur da dahil.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the complexity of love.”
― Elif Shafak, Honor

“Derviş dedi ki: Kimi insan böyledir.Kendi korkularını, önyargılarını başkalarına yansıtır; onlarda gördüğünü sanır. İşte asıl yük budur.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“An aura surrounds every living thing, an aura in a different colour each time. Do you know what colour is yours?”
― Elif Shafak, The Flea Palace

“Her insanın erafında bir renk halesi vardır. Seninkini biliyor musun?”
― Elif Shafak, The Flea Palace

“As a Sufi I had sworn to protect life and do no harm. In this world of illusions, so many people were readt ti fight without any reason, and so many others fought for a reason. But the Sufi was the one who wouldn't fight even if he had a reason.”
― Elif Shafak

“It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“In this state I roam east and west, searching for God high and low. I hunrt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.”
― Elif Shafak

“You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Some cities you go to because you want to; some cities you go to because they want you to.”
― Elif Shafak, Ustam ve Ben