“Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.”

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

“The second Death, that never dies,
That cannot die, when time is dead”

“We cannot underestimate the power of love in our lives. Only those who have been there will truly understand your feelings.”

“Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

“There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.”

“[On meditation] …that's the single most important thing that I do…there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.”

“We see nothing truly till we understand it.”

“Arts have died in Europe, what we see now in the name of art are the pieces of those artists who are already dead. There is no living art. We, as Turkey, should start a lively, fresh understanding of art.”