617 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

Now everyone is prouder and poorer

It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world.

Аз жаргал бол хэн нэгнийг тэврээд бүхий л ертөнцийг тэвэрсэнтэй адилхан болох тэр мэдрэмж юм.

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.

So you heroically undertook to endure the pains of faithlessness, just to be able to write good poems. But you didn´t realise then that when you lost that voice inside you, you´d end up all alone in an empty universe.

A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent´t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he´d still be the loneliest man on earth.

Durante toda minha vida me senti perdido e só como um animal ferido. Talvez se eu não tivesse abraçado com tal violência, não a teria irritado tanto, e talvez não tivesse destruído um trabalho de doze anos, terminando exatamente onde comecei. Mas cá estou eu, abandonado e definhando; trago comigo as cicatrizes de um sofrimento insuportável em cada centímetro de meu corpo. Às vezes eu acho que não perdi apenas você, mas tudo no mundo.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.