More Quotes by Yaşar Kemal
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
