Mehmet Murat ildan

Eyes of Magic (2000) 

*They say “Wine is Satan’s falcon,”; apparently he uses it in hunting men! (Mehmet Murat ildan) 

*Women are like the fish in the sea, they are the ones who give life to the sea, that make the sea joyful. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*My dear Tartini, one’s life is so sweet and precious that even honey tastes like salt in comparison! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Don’t forget that the boat and the water are in love with each other; you should never let them on their own; lo and behold, they have made an agreement with the wind and gone off on their honeymoon! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*What a hungry fox constantly dreams of is a chicken! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*You see only the cat’s paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there’s nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can’t see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A worthless servant is more popular than his master! This means that the apocalypse mentioned in the Bible is near at hand! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A female ship should slowly go to dock when she sees a male harbour, for this is the most natural thing to do! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman’s heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Your wife has deserted you, but you’ll find a new one; whereas, soon my wits will desert me, and for this there is no remedy. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Anyway, two men hugging each other is against nature. A ram should not hug another ram, and a he-goat should not hug another he-goat! Let a he-dog embrace a she-dog, and let a female cattle hug a bull, but a stallion should not embrace another stallion, and a cock should not reach for another cock! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A woman and a man are like the sheet and the quilt. Since we happen to be the quilts, we need to have clean sheets. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Don’t forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

Beggar's Prophecy (2001) 

*For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!  (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man’s heart into a stone!  (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice!  (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*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)

*Think of people like bottles full of a liquid inside but without labels; smell the bottle, pour out what is inside and study it carefully. Never mind the labels; pretend that they don’t exist! Labels are misleading!  (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!  (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*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)

*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)

*For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!  (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.  (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*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)

*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)

*Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . . This is a fantastic idea! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*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)

*To life! There can never be anything more important than life! To life, my friends! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

Galileo Galilei (2001) 

*It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Oh my son, so poor in doing the right things, so rich in doing the wrong things! What great poverty it is to be so rich! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*If the world is turning, even the church can’t stop it; if it isn’t turning, nobody can go out and make it turn. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*To go to the wine house and not to get drunk is as difficult as to dive into a pool and not get wet! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way to one’s grave! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I never worry about how many legs my chicken has, about whether it can fly or not, about which cock was her husband; that my hen gives me eggs is enough for me! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Man is a “jar of mistakes”, dear Giulia; as we have made a mistake, we are human; this proves it! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*When the number of children goes over one, God becomes miserly in granting intelligence; he takes it from the living child and gives it to the child to be born. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*It helps nothing to cry and complain, to pluck our hair. There’s no difference between getting mad at our fate and getting mad at rocks and stones. The ears of Fate are completely deaf; anyway, it doesn’t matter whether she hears our voices or not; when the moment comes, she only speaks of the things she has already designed and rains the orders she has already planned. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king!. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: they can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I’m saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won’t let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man’s foot and stops him forever from advancing. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A fortune-teller means a braggart anyway. Don’t you know that a donkey can’t do but braying, a wolf can’t do but howling, a horse can’t do but neighing, and a fortune-teller can’t do but telling lies? (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*The “stream” we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down one day, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I know it too well, my friend. Fresh water does not come out of a bitter spring; you don’t expect to get rose perfume coming out of a rubbish heap, neither scorpions to kiss people! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

William Shakespeare (2002) 

*Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle’s egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale? (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat ! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren’t we all a little crazy anyway? (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing all over the place, what is the use of killing one insignificant chick? In a war you have to kill the king first; thus you can put an end to the battle more quickly! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivaled heights. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don’t you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*An actor should have not one face but a thousand faces; like the phoenix which carries a print of each animal, an actor should carry a print of each human being! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*The theatre is a machine of transformations: everything is transformed into another thing; a bald man has thick hair on his head; a man with strong legs gains a limp and a sharp-eyed person becomes blind; an actor who is an atheist immediately turns into the most pious priest on earth! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next “Get it!” (Mehmet Murat ildan)

Emmanuel Arago's Diary (2004)

*Elephants don’t know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A very long year spent without writing anything by a writer is no different from a moment wasted away from the water by a fish! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*No fiction can be superior to and more attractive than the truths themselves! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*When God is writing our fate, he uses our blood as ink, if you ask me; and we act out whatever is written in our blood! We are God’s puppets! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Even if the invisible wind stepped into mud, it would leave traces behind; even the fog, which has no body, has its own footmarks: While walking like a white-shrouded ghost in the silence of the night or in the dusk of the morning, it leaves crystal dews on the flowers and grass! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*The best thing about hell is that there are no priests there! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A wealthy man can only be swindled with a high price! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*When you look into a well from above, you can’t see anything; you have to go down into the well itself. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Even the most horrible nightmares come to an end one day!.. Just like the good days, bad days are also transitory, Catherine! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A person cannot choose love, love chooses a person. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Our hearts are not like those docile horses we can hold the reins of and drive in any direction we wish; they are like wild horses, without bridles on and free; we have no way of knowing what they will be doing or where they will be running! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Nobody is “superior” to anybody else, only “different”, that is all! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Stupidity is contagious, isn’t that so? Loneliness is a kind of quarantine against stupidity; it’s an effective antidote! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Each person chooses a certain way to forget his or her sufferings, Gregory, and I’ve chosen to make myself suffer, to torture myself! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*When I come back from the rough seas, I look for calm lakes I can walk on quietly; a knight who has got tired of riding a wild horse takes great pleasure from sitting on a scabby mule! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*The night definitely makes one free!.. The night does not have thousands of curious eyes as the day has! One is under much less control during the nights. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A human being can live without water for a week as a camel does in the desert; but he can never live without lies for one week! What is the greatest invention of mankind, Malaparte? Fire? The black iron plough? Or is it the wheel? No, no! None of these things: Our most magnificent invention, our best servant is the “lie”! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A man drowns in the sea and fish die on land; it is really stupid to go beyond some limits without having certain characteristics! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Big secrets are like contagious diseases; they spread very rapidly. What two men know should never be known by a third person; or a fourth, and after him a fifth will follow! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*You must make yourself prepared to eating a desert by putting salt on it and to rowing your boat in the black storm that comes after a sunny journey! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*The student is an empty glass, Malaparte; the teacher fills him up carefully, and when it is full he starts looking for a new glass, a teacher has nothing to do with a full glass! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I may be a dwarf in terms of my size, but I have a giant-size intelligence! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*One has to waste others so as not to waste himself! (MMİ)

*I think of happiness as water, my lady! As something clear, clean and beautiful. But it is something ever moving, very fluid; it can slip away from our hands any moment! It has great powers of transforming itself: it can turn into vapour and disappear in front of our very eyes, just like water does! No chains can be put on human happiness; can you put chains on water? (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they

are pushed to the background. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Each woman can grow her nails when she wants to fight! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*You can’t have a decent society before you have picked out the stones from among the rice! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Dreams! Fantasies!.. These are nothing but broken pieces of glass; glass gets crashed with the first stone that hits it! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Changeability! That cursed changeability of things! I can’t stand this crazy changeability of life any more. Why isn’t that dazzling light called happiness be as constant as the North Star? (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I feel dizzy; just now I am standing at the edge of a deep cliff. One should either be very far from the cliff or at the bottom of it; it is real torture to be standing on its edge like I am doing now! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

It All Began With Marianne 

*Life is a mirror, I think; when we look at it smiling, it will smile back at us; when we sulk at it, it will also frown at us! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*How many people can recognize a linden tree, anyway, including those who drink linden tea every day? (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I love and I am being loved, therefore I am! (Mehmet Murat ildan) 

*I say, “A famina salus!” If I am to translate it, “Salvation comes from the woman!” (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*It is the natural right of every human being to commit enjoyable sins; you are building sacred dams in front of our hormones in vain, for you have no idea about the power of hormones; blood boiling with lust has more burning power than molten iron, than the lava from Etna; it will burn and turn into ashes any obstacles put before it! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Our people have turned into fruit, hard outside but rotten inside! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*People are drawn together by their common denominators; their common troubles act like the glue! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*God has given you beauty, so that you will find a husband easily and that you won’t come to the church to disturb him unnecessarily! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*A bad seed is sure to create a bad forest; and the children sucking bad milk will definitely come out as ignoble creatures! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*I am not the first husband to be betrayed in this world, nor the last; the length of this “chain of betrayals” can only be measured in light-years. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*If we feed our body constantly with garlic and our mind with positive thoughts, we’ll always be able to keep our feet on the ground firmly! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Oh, those young people! They never hesitate when it comes to setting out for adventures, to entering unknown waters! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*Nothing is a play, even a play on the stage! Each moment in life is real! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

*One can sometimes become a puppeteer in life without being aware of it; we pull the strings of the events and persons we can never guess without being aware of what we are doing! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

AŞK ÜZERİNE ÖZDEYİŞLER

* İki alevli aşkın arasında kalan her ne varsa, çoğu kez o, ortadan kaldırılması gereken korkunç bir engel olarak görülür. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* İnsan yalnızca karşı cinsten birine âşık olmaz; binalara, taşlara, bahçelere de âşık olur. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Aşkın parlak ışığı karşısında akıl, zavallı bir gölgeye dönüşerek bilinmeyen bir yere süklüm püklüm çekip gider. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Beni şimdi bir sarayın bahçesindeki bir havuza atın, havuzun fokurdamaya başladığını görmezseniz ben de aşkı bilmiyorum, ben hiçbir şey bilmiyorum demektir. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Uzakta bir yerde bir horoz uzunca öttü; penceremin önünden birkaç yarasa geçiverdi; onlar da mı âşıklar yoksa benim gibi? Böyle sabahlara kadar uykusuz kalmak başka neden olur ki? (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Aşk, büyük ama geçici bir tsunami dalgasıdır. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Aşkta mesafe ölümden beterdir. İnsan sevdiğine, bir ağacın toprağa ya da bir balığın suya uzak olduğu kadar uzak olmalıdır en fazla. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Aşk, insanlık tarihinin en güçlü komutanıdır; bilinen ve bilinmeyen zamanların en dâhi generalidir. Ona direnmek mümkün olmadığı gibi, ona teslim olmak en büyük zaferlere eşdeğerdir. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Sevda, sevdalananı zincirler. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Ah, ben aşkın derin kuyusuna düşmüşüm; Tanrı aşkına bir merdiven, bir ip! Dümdüz ve yağlı bir kalas da olur, en azından ona tırmanmaya çalışırım!.. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Kayık ve su birbirlerine âşıktırlar; onları başıboş bırakmaya gelmez; bir bakarsın ki, rüzgarla anlaşıp balayına çıkmışlar!.. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Nedir bu sevda denen şey? Bir tür hastalık mı? Evet, bu bir tür hastalık; dünyanın en gizemli hastalığı üstelik! Sıtma gibi insanı şiddetle titretiyor, ateşini yükseltiyor. Nedir bu sevda denen şey? Bir şeytan mı? İnanın aşkın, saadetin içinde yılan gibi ısırıp acıtan kahredici bir ıstırap da var!.. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* İçinde saçmalıklar ve delilikler olmayan bir aşk gerçek bir aşk değildir. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Aşkın gücü karşısında insanoğlunun yapacağı hiçbir şey yok. İnsan aşkı seçemez, aşk insanı seçer. Kalplerimiz, dizginlerinden tutup istediğimiz yöne sürebildiğimiz uysal atlardan değiller; onlar vahşi atlar gibidir; gemsiz ve özgür; ne yapacaklarını, nereye koşacaklarını bilemeyiz. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Kalbini zırhla kaplamış olan, kalbini çürümeye terk etmiş demektir. Zırhlar şövalyeleri korurlar, ama kalpleri öldürürler. Yüreği korunmasız, kalkansız, zırhsız olan aşkta yenilmez, çünkü aşkın savaşında galip gelmek için yaralanmak, kanamak gerek. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Tarih boyunca savaş meydanlarında büyük hüsrana uğramış o ünlü komutanlar, bir kadının kocasını başka bir kadına kaptırmasının verdiği acının sadece onda birini bile hissetmemiştir. Yenilgilerin en büyüğüdür sevgide, aşkta kaybetmek. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Sırnaşık âşıklar, bostan korkuluğuna rağmen tarlaya konarak tohumları yemeye kararlı aç kargalar gibi ısrarcıdırlar. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Eğer bir rahip âşık olursa, aşk, bu Tanrı adamının içindeki rahibi öldürürken onun içindeki cüceleşmiş erkeği de Herkül gibi güçlü kılar. Aşk, erkeği devleştirir. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Aşkın karşısında yenilgi ömre bedel bir zaferdir; aşkı yenmekse bozgun ve sefalettir. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Sevgi, insanı adeta bir Süpermen yapar; insan öyle müthiş bir özgüven duygusuyla donanır ki, her şeyi yapabileceğini, her şeyin mümkün olduğunu düşünür. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Ceylanların kaplanları kovaladıklarına, geyiklerin aslan gibi kükrediklerine, kurbağaların bülbül gibi öttüklerine inanın da sevgisiz, sevdasız yaşanacağına inanmayın. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Aşk, dünyayı olduğu gibi değil “Aşkça” görür. (Mehmet Murat ildan)

* Alev alev yanan bir aşkı mantıkla söndürmeye çalışmak, güneşi suyla söndürmeye çalışmaktan farksızdır. (Mehmet Murat ildan)