Now everyone is prouder and poorer

- Orhan Pamuk

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

- Orhan Pamuk

‎The past is always an invented land.

- Orhan Pamuk

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who…

- Orhan Pamuk

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

- Orhan Pamuk

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two…

- Orhan Pamuk

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

- Orhan Pamuk

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously…

- Orhan Pamuk

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

- Orhan Pamuk