Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
Orhan Pamuk
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
Academic
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
İstanbul
Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk
Well
Life
Incidents
String
Random
Strings
Meaningless
Knew
Wells
More quotes by Orhan Pamuk
I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.
Orhan Pamuk
Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
Orhan Pamuk
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
Orhan Pamuk
Now everyone is prouder and poorer
Orhan Pamuk
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
Orhan Pamuk
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.
Orhan Pamuk
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.
Orhan Pamuk
Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.
Orhan Pamuk
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
Orhan Pamuk
Love is a sacred silence.
Orhan Pamuk
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.
Orhan Pamuk
What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.
Orhan Pamuk
The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.
Orhan Pamuk
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
Orhan Pamuk
The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry.
Orhan Pamuk
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
Orhan Pamuk
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
Orhan Pamuk
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
Orhan Pamuk
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
Orhan Pamuk
