Orhan Pamuk Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Home, Heart, World

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Apr 08, 2013

• How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Crush, Pain, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from May 17, 2013

• It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Falling In Love, Heart, Men

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “Snow”, p.222, Vintage

• ...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Stars, Heart, Reflection

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “Snow”, p.118, Vintage

• 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 show our country disrespect and betray its people.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Heart, People

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Jul 29, 2011

• When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hurt, Heart, Two

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.191, Faber & Faber

• If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Heart, Giving

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.55, Faber & Faber

• In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Heart, Museums, Losing

  "Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

• How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Crush, Pain, Powerful

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.266, Faber & Faber

• We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

  Orhan Pamuk

  New York, Heart, Color

  Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life: A Novel”, p.104, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Lying, Eye

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