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Orhan Pamuk Quotes | Quotes said by Orhan Pamuk

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #1

    ...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy, we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #2

    ...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #3

    ...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one´s own snowflake.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #4

    ...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 ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.'

    'Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #5

    ...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #6

    ...love is deep attention, deep compassion...

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #7

    ...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #8

    ...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #9

    ¡Ninguna vida se parece a otra!... Cada historia es una historia precisamente porque no existe otra igual.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #10

    A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent´t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he´d still be the loneliest man on earth.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #11

    A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #12

    After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #13

    After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #14

    Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #15

    Ama aski diri tutan sey imkânsiz olmasidir.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #16

    Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy, said my father as he watched the three beauties. But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #17

    As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to the mirror, conjuring up the memory of the couple in the film. I couldn't get the image of their lips out of my mind. But by now I'd realised I'd not even be kissing myself; I'd be kissing the mirror.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #18

    As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #19

    At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper form, can become valuable knowledge about reality.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #20

    Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life, isn't that so, Fatma?

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #21

    Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #22

    Benim için kitap okurken hala önemli olan anlamaktan çok, okudugum seye uygun düsler kurmaktir.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #23

    Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #24

    But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel...Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and superior and humanistic, they need to think of us as sweet and funny, and convince themselves that they sympathize with the way we are and even love us.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #25

    Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #26

    Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #27

    Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #28

    Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #29

    Çünkü bana göre siyaset, en sonunda bizim gibi olmayanlari kararlilikla anlamama, romancilik ise anlama isidir.

  • Orhan Pamuk Quote #30

    Çünkü içinizde kalbinize nakseylediginiz bir sevgilinin yüzü yasiyorsa eger, dünya hala sizin evinizdir.

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