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“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Bu dünyada insanların korktuÄŸu tek ÅŸey öğrenmekti. Acıyı, susuzluÄŸu ve üzüntüyü öğrenmek onların uykularını kaçırıyor, bu yüzden daha rahat döşeklere, daha leziz yemeklere ve daha neÅŸeli dostlara sığınıyorlardı. Dünyaya olan kayıtsızlıkları bazen o kerteye varıyordu ki, kendilerine altın ve gümüşten, zevk ve sefadan, lezzet ve ÅŸehvetten bir alem kurup, keder ve ızdırap fikirlerinin kafalarına girmesine izin vermiyorlardı.”
― Ä°hsan Oktay Anar, Puslu Kıtalar Atlası

“The trouble with you, I think, is you are still too dependent on others. You expect too much from outside you and demand too little of yourself. You hope everything will be made smooth and easy for you by someone else. Well, it’s coming to the point where you are old enough, and have been around enough, to see that this will get you exactly nowhere. You will be what you make yourself and you have got to do that job absolutely alone and on your own, whether you’re in school or holding down a job.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“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, Sessiz Ev