134 Quotes by Elif Şafak

İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli.

Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder.

Kim olursak olalım, dünyanın hangi yerinde yaşarsak yaşayalım, ta derinlerde bir yerde hepimiz bir eksiklik duygusu taşımaktayız. Sanki temel bir şeyimizi kaybetmişiz de geri alamamaktan korkuyoruz. Neyin eksik olduğunu bilenimizde hakikaten çok az.

لا يهم ما اذا كنت قد انجبت أطفالا أم كتبت كتبا ، أو بعت الفطاير في الشارع، أو وقعت عقد عمل بمليون دولار، ما يهم ان تكوني سعيدة و مكتفية من الداخل . هل أنت كذلك؟

Page 158: 'Architecture is team work,' said Sinan. 'Apprenticeship is not.''Why don't you want us to look at each other's drawings? ' Jahan once asked.'Because you'll compare. If you think you are better than the others, you'll be poisoned by hubris. If you think another's better, poisoned by envy. Either way, it is poison.

Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.

Kitaplardı onun vatanı ama aynı zamanda daimi sürgün diyarı.

البشر يميلون إلى الاستخفاف بما لا يمكنهم فهمه

ما لم نتعلّم كيف نحبّ خلق الله، فلن تستطيع أن نحبّ حقاً ولن نعرف الله حقاً".