Orhan Pamuk Quotes

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

The part of life which we really live is short.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.

Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Please do not lose the ability to dream

Every day a little death.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.