617 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office.

Now he knew what it was that he wanted to tell Istanbul and write on its walls. It was both his public and his private view; it was what his heart intended as much as what his words had always meant to say. He said it to himself: “I have loved Rayiha more than anything in this world.

She felt herself age suddenly, but also knew what she now desired: to reconcile and grow old in peace, and have the wit to want nothing from the world.

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on... ” – Conversations with Yahya Kemal.

All the happiness and beauty that life had to offer only revealed themselves when his mind drifted off into fantasies of a world far removed from his own.

Not a day passes when the eagle of dark depression doesn’t take flight in my soul, said Sunay, infusing his words with mysterious pride. But I cannot catch myself. So hold yourself in. All’s well that ends well.

It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she’s going to fall in love with him.

The larger and more colorful a city is, the more places there are to hide one’s guilt and sin; the more crowded it is, the more people there are to hide behind.

To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind.