617 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn.

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one´s own snowflake.

I don't want to be a tree, I want to be its meaning.

Okul denen yerin aslında temel soruları cevaplamadığını, yalnızca onları hayatın gereği olarak benimsememize yardım ettiğini çıkarmıştım.

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.