The Beggar's Prophecy Quotes

“May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“I only want to remind you what weak creatures human beings are. Even people who seem to have wills of steel have serious weaknesses! At those moments of weakness, will power breaks into a thousand pieces.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“Don’t forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“To life! There can never be anything more important than life! To life, my friends!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . . This is a fantastic idea!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“Typewriter keys can’t be blamed because of what has been typed on the typewriter; the one who committed the crime is the one who used the typewriter; the one who typed on the keyboard!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he can pick up with his claws. Sometimes he goes round hungry for a week, he cannot catch any characters; and sometimes characters rain on him like heavy rain.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt people is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“Being a playwright, a film producer, a minister, a general; these are all masks one wears over one’s face in the society; masks don’t mean anything, for a man is what he is!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy

“That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man’s heart into a stone!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy