Enes Kanter Quotes

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

When I speak of the fear, intimidation, arrests, and public shaming of intellectuals and religious leaders who dare to speak their minds, and then I tell you that I'm from Saudi Arabia, are you surprised?

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

I miss my family all the time.

I can't stand another night in a hotel. Just being away. You miss the kids.

It's difficult when your family are not physically around you.

My friends and family in Turkey could be arrested just for talking to me.

I miss my family every single day.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

People were following me home in cars, singing outside my window at my flat. I couldn't go to pubs or supermarkets or walk down the street. It was bizarre, but that was my life.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

…'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.