Quotes by : Orhan Pamuk

My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in.....

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake....

Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind....

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand....

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team,....

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we....

...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical....

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments....