“Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“According to my father, the greatest happiness in life was to marry the girl you'd spent your youth reading books with in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“It's important, no doubt, to understand the person we love. If we cannot manage this, it's necessary, at least, to believe we… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“...The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“People don’t know when they’re happy, at least not while it’s going on.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“...no one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
