46 Quotes About Istanbul

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!

Bir kadın bir şehir olmalı. İstanbul kadar loş. Haliç kadar bulanık. Erik kadar tuza hasret. Nergis kadar güzel kokmalı. Derinlerine alıp sokmalı, sarmalı. Kalbi cam gibi kıpkırmızı atmalı.

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Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece of themselves.

Tıpkı, daha oluşumunu tamamlamakta olan bir gezegenin yüzeyi gibi, üzeri beton, taş, kiremit, ahşap ve pleksiglas ve kubbeyle kaplı inişli çıkışlı şehir parçacıkları, sanki ağır ağır aralanacaklar ve karanlığın içinden esrarlı yeraltının alev rengi aydınlığı sızacaktı.

I am listening to Istanbul with my eyes closedThe drunkenness of old timesIn the wooden seaside villa with its deserted boat houseThe roaring Southwestern wind is trapped,My thoughts are trapped.I am listening to Istanbul with my eyes closedA bird is flying around your skirtI know if your forehead is hot or coldOr your lips are wet or dry;Or is a white moon is rising above the hazelnut treeMy heart's fluttering tells meI am listening to Istanbul with my eyes closed

Nothing beats Istanbul when it comes to street food. The city's sidewalks are a walkable sampler platter.

The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy.

It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatre-set that modern Turkey had thrown aside in favour of the steel and concrete flat-iron of the Istanbul-Hilton Hotel, blankly glittering behind him on the heights of Pera.