Zeynep Attar

“Bu izdivaç mikrobu evlendikten sonra faaliyetine başlar: Evvelce birtakım emelleri olan, yükselmek, kendini göstermek, eser vermek isteyen adamlara bir kalenderlik, bir lakaytlık gelir. Evde meram anlatmaya asla imkan olmayan, seviyesi, ahlak telakkisi, dünyayı görüşü ve itiyatları büsbütün ayrı bir mahlukla daimi bir beraberlik insanı dış hayatta da bedbin yapar ve bütün insanlardan şüpheye düşürür.

Evlendikten sonra bir adamın bütün gayesi ve istikbal düşüncesi, bir kere içine girmiş bulunduğu ve şimdi mukadder telakki ettiği bu belayı ses çıkarmadan ve dosta düşmana pek belli etmeden sürükleyip götürmek, onda herkes tarafından söylenen, fakat kimse tarafından bulunamayan meziyetler ve saadetler araştırmaktır.”
― Sabahattin Ali

“But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“There are basically two ways to help people get sufficient money to fund their entire retirement. The first is to get people to save more money, and to start saving at a younger age. The second approach is to get people to die at a younger age. The easier approach, by far, is getting people to die younger. And how might we achieve this? By allowing citizens to smoke. By subsidizing sugary and fatty foods. By limiting access to preventive health care etc. When we think about retirement savings in these terms, it seems that we’re already doing the most we can on this front.”
― Dan Ariely, Irrationally yours : on missing socks, pick-up lines and other existential puzzles

“Dear Dan,
Do you have general advice for how to approach diffıcult decisions?
D.A.: Luckily the technology you need to solve this problem is already at your disposal. All you need is a coin. Assign each car to a side of the coin, flip it high in the air. At this point, you can wait until the coin lands, and use this random device to make your choice - but my guess is that when the coin is in the air, you will realize which car is the one you really want.”
― Dan Ariely, Irrationally yours : On Missing Socks, Pick-up Lines and Other Existential Puzzles