Orhan Pamuk Quotes

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

‎The past is always an invented land.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Happiness is laughing together.

Love is a sacred silence.

We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

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 our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring