Famous Elif Shafak Quotes

  • we are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame . – Elif Shafak

    we are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .– Elif Shafak

  • If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time. – Elif Shafak

    If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time.– Elif Shafak

  • Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process – Elif Shafak

    Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process– Elif Shafak

  • Believers are each other’s mirrors. – Elif Shafak

    Believers are each other’s mirrors.– Elif Shafak

  • Let us choose one another as companions!Let us sit at each other’s feet!Inwardly we have many harmonies – think notThat we are only what we see. – Elif Shafak

    Let us choose one another as companions!Let us sit at each other’s feet!Inwardly we have many harmonies – think notThat we are only what we see.– Elif Shafak

  • There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life. – Elif Shafak

    There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.– Elif Shafak

  • It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you. – Elif Shafak

    It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.– Elif Shafak

  • How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated. – Elif Shafak

    How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.– Elif Shafak

  • Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow. – Elif Shafak

    Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.– Elif Shafak

  • Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow – not anything you could truly feel. – Elif Shafak

    Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow – not anything you could truly feel.– Elif Shafak