617 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

عشقه که آدما ابله میکنه یا فقط ادمای احمق عاشق میشن؟

Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.

According to my father, the greatest happiness in life was to marry the girl you'd spent your youth reading books with in the passionate pursuit of a shared ideal.

Ist nicht eigentliches Ziel von Roman und Museum, unsere Erinnerungen so aufrichtig wie möglich zu erzählen und dadurch unser Glück in das Glück anderer zu verwandeln?

Bütün hayatım İstanbul'un yakılıp, yıkılıp, tahrip edilip değiştirilmesinin hikayesidir. Bu, insanın kendi hatıralarının, kendi hatırladıklarının, bağlı olduğu sokakların, çevrelerin, neredeyse hafızasına, ezberine aldığı görüntülerin yok edilmesi hikâyesidir ve benim için çok dramlı, acılı ve ağır bir hikâyedir.

...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.

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