Berk > Berk's Quotes

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

“We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book

“If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?”
― Mary Astell

“Sevişemeyecek olduktan sonra neden insanlar böyle birbiri içine giren şehirler yapmışlar?”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık

“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
― Donald Woods Winnicott

“Sana büyük caddelerin birinde rastlasam
Elimi uzatsam tutsam götürsem
Gözlerine baksam gözlerine konuşmasak
Anlasan

Elimi uzatsam tutamasam
Olanca sevgimi yalnızlığımı
Düşünsem hayır düşünmesem
Senin hiç haberin olmasa
Senin hiç haberin olmaz ki
Başlar biter kendi kendine o türkü

Yağmur yağar akasyalar ıslanır
Bulutlar uçuşur geceleyin
Ben yağmura deli buluta deli
Bir büyük oyun yaşamak dediğin
Beni ya sevmeli ya öldürmeli

Yitirmeli büyük yolların birinde ne varsa
Böcekler gibi başlamalı yeniden
Bu Allahsız bu yağmur işlemez karanlıkta
Yan garipliğine yürek yan
Gitti giden”
― Gülten Akın, Deli Kızın Türküsü

“The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.”
― Orhan Pamuk

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Onlar koca onlar baba onlar sevgili onlar devlet.
Eşitlik istediğimizi sananlar yanılıyor
Kim eşitlenmek ister hırsızlar ve katillerle Birhan!”
― Birhan Keskin, Fakir Kene

“o büyük ve muazzam zamanda unuttum
kanatlarım çok oldu üşüyor benim
bu beyaz ıssızlıkta göğsüme düşüyor
bu yüzden eğik boynum

bir kuşun anısı kalmış bende, saklı
bundan gözlerimdeki kayalık,
içimdeki serseri buzullar

dürtme içimdeki narı
üstümde beyaz gömlek var.”
― Birhan Keskin

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“O üzüntü birdenbire gelir. Hava yağmurludur. Bir sonu gelmeyecek başlangıç. Böyle sürüp gidecek gibidir her şey. Öyle ki, çocuklar bile çirkindir.”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Havuz Başı

“My unhappiness protects me from life.”
― Orhan Pamuk

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals. ”
― Margaret Mead

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness's domain. (p. 1)”
― José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag