246 Quotes by Elif Shafak

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

What is the point of roaming the world when it’s the same misery everywhere?

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Believers are each other’s mirrors.

Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it’s a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don’t care about the real world until I am done with the book.