"[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for……" — Orhan Pamuk
"[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation."
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156 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk has 156 quotes on this site.
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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
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If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like…
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Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that…
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Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is…
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To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must,…
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
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To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book:…
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace…
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Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value…
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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More Consolation Quotes
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
— Brendan Behan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one…
— George MacDonald
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Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
— Tryon Edwards
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
— William Shakespeare
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have…
— Albert Camus
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.…
— Khalil Gibran
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
— Josh Billings
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