'Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.' - Arthur Schopenhauer

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda

"That's the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.'

“An empty stomach, an empty wallet, and a broken heart can teach you the best lessons in life.” - Robin Williams

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln

"I think, personally, my soul is closer to a Russian soul. I’m quite a melancholic person, and this kind of melancholy is, I think, in the Russian atmosphere. I always felt this kind of melancholy, but when I was younger and I hadn’t yet read the Russian classics, I felt guilty for feeling this way. I felt I was different from the others, abnormal. But when I read Russian literature, I found some similar people, and I felt better. It was a kind of therapy for me.
Socrates said that the aim of philosophy is to know oneself. For me, the cinema is the same thing. I try to know myself better, to relieve my pain about life. In your travels, you see different kinds of people, different kinds of lives, and that makes you think. You ask harsh questions of yourself. I try to understand what it means to be human.
I feel a different kind of satisfaction when I finish a photograph. In film, you deal with hundreds of people, which is sometimes difficult. But with photography, you are like God. You are alone. It’s a kind of meditation.
I think there are certain kinds of people in every culture. These kind of people ask similar questions about life, and it doesn’t change in New York or anywhere else. You meet these people in Iran, in Singapore, everywhere. And these kind of people make another kind of nation. Through films, you find your soulmates, who live in the same nation with you."
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan

"The best of cinema makes you feel like you are eavesdropping on people's lives."

''A society that believes in nothing is particularly frightened by people who believe in anything''

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
-Plato

And He will judge and forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek.... And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. 'You too come forth', He will say. 'Come forth, ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!' And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before Him. And He will say unto us, 'Ye are swine, made in the image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!' And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, 'Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?' And He will say, 'This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worth of this'
- Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)


"Love is space and time measured by the heart"
- Marcel Proust

"Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students"
-Robin Williams

''Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of men''
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know."
- Georges Perec.