Petek Dindar > Petek's Quotes

“Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.”
― J.D. Salinger, Teddy

“Life is a gift horse in my opinion.”
― J.D. Salinger, Teddy

“I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“As in all religions, man is freed of the weight of his own life.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Likewise the mind that aims to understand reality can consider itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Although “The Myth of Sisyphus” poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“I want everything to be explained to me or nothing. And the reason is impotent when it hears this cry from the heart. The mind aroused by this insistence seeks and finds nothing but contradictions and nonsense.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“All those who are struggling for freedom today are ultimately fighting for beauty.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Once one has survived something then survival itself interferes with understanding, and you don't even know which lives came before and which is your life of today, you even mix up your own lives.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina

“Yaşayacak bir niçin'i bulunan, hemen her nasıla dayanabilir.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina

“...ve ben kendimin kapağını açıp, Ivan için kitabın ilk sayfalarını arıyorum, yüzümün gizemli görünmesini sağlıyorum...”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina

“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”
― Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper

“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.”
― Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper

“For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.”
― Carlos Maria Dominguez, The House of Paper

“I fuck with every book, and if I don’t leave a mark, there’s no orgasm.”
― Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper

“Today, the voice of populist infantile politics is amplified by social media allowing the ignorant to claim equality with the informed.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“Sometimes there happens to be a particularly determined person in the audience who asks, ‘So where is the hope?’ My answer is always the same: ‘Follow the young women.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“Truth is not mathematical concept that needs to be proved with equations. Its singleness demands an intact moral compass, with certainties about what is good and bad.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“Bir başkasının varlığıyla teselli olabiliriz gerçekten; ama tesellimizde bu insanın sadece vasıta olduğunu, kendi kendimizi teselli edenin yine kendimiz olduğunu çoğu kez fark edemeyiz. Dünyada hiçbir şey yoktur ki kendimizden ayrı olmasın.”
― Nihan Kaya, İyi Toplum Yoktur: Günlük Hayatta Toplumun Bireyi İstismar Biçimleri

“Kadınlar ayak numaralarıyla, bedenleriyle, fikirleriyle, tercihleriyle uzayda ne kadar az yer kaplarlarsa o kadar makbul sayılmıştır.”
― Nihan Kaya, İyi Toplum Yoktur: Günlük Hayatta Toplumun Bireyi İstismar Biçimleri

“Toplumun kendisinden beklediğinin yarısını yapan bir kadının hayatı çoktan dolmuştur. ... Ama gerçekten değerli bir şey ortaya koymamız, kadın olarak bize dayatılan hayattaki çok ama çok sayıdaki unsura ayak diremediğimiz, bir yerde sınır çizmediğimiz sürece imkansız.”
― Nihan Kaya, İyi Toplum Yoktur: Günlük Hayatta Toplumun Bireyi İstismar Biçimleri

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge