Orhan Pamuk Quotes


Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.


Citations

Pamuk, Orhan. Snow. Translated by Maureen Freely, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

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Voltaire’s view is often cited by opponents of assisted suicide or “the right to die.” At the time, the right wing was oriented to let anyone do as they pleased and the left wing was trying to discourage things like suicide. Melancholy was the term for what we now recognize as the disease of depression.


Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
  • Born: June 7, 1952
  • Nationality: Turkish
  • Profession: Novelist, Screenwriter

Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.