Episode Quotes

## Season 1

### Episode 1

"Out of the eye of your judges there always glanceth the executioner" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Literary source: Thus Spake Zarathustra

### Episode 2

"The rack disdains, and makes it indistinct as water is in water" - William Shakespeare

Literary source: Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 14

### Episode 4

"No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it" - Stefan Zweig

Literary source: Beware of Pity

### Episode 5

"What is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Literary source: The Little Prince

### Episode 6

"Don't take every person rubbing your back for a friend. They could be looking for a place to stab you." - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

### Episode 7

"When the water rises, the fish eats the ant; when the water recedes, the ant eats the fish" - Plato

In Turkey, this quote is attributed to Plato. However, in other countries and communities around the world it is believed to have an African or Asian origin.

### Episode 8

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth" - Buddha

### Episode 9

"When it snows in the mountain you trust, the best decision is to leave both the snow and mountain be." - Şems-i Tebrizi

### Episode 10

"It is not fire that burns a person, but their own negligence. They see flaws in everyone, yet look blindly at themselves." - Mevlana

### Episode 11

"If a man has no courage to face his own self, he will play with the faults of others." - Oscar Wilde.

### Episode 12

"There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead and those who are yet to be born" - Chinese proverb

### Episode 13

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." - Confucius

### Episode 14

"It is not difficult for you to kill the man, but his blood will surely stain your own soul." - Lev Tolstoy (The Candle)

In Turkish, this quote has an additional part saying "the killer's soul bleeds." however it's not in any English translations of the text, so it was ommitted here.

### Episode 15

"If you fall, I will pick you up. If I don't succeed I will lie down next to you." - Julio Cortázar (Hopscotch)

### Episode 16

"Shallow pain can be discussed. Deep pain cannot be spoken of." - Seneca

### Episode 17

"In order to find the right path you need to get lost first" - Italo Calvino

### Episode 18

"Once I had all the answers, the questions changed" - Paulo Coelho

### Episode 19

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn" - David Russell

### Episode 20

"Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings." - Henrik Ibsen

In Turkey/Turkish, this quote is attributed to Henrik Ibsen. However, the quote itself is traced back to Victor Hugo.

### Episode 21

"A sheep spends its whole life fearing wolves but eventually gets eaten by the shepard." - Thomas Hobbes

### Episode 22

"Life is like hail that hits you right after you've waited for winter to pass and for the flowers to bloom." - José Mauro de Vasconcelos

Literary source: My Sweet Orange Tree

### Episode 23

"I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided" - Fernando Pessoa

### Episode 24

"How many lies are told in this world - verbally, in writing, or in silence" - Yusuf Atılgan

### Episode 25

"Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other;" - Francis Bacon

### Episode 26

"My breath, my thoughts, my soul came to a halt. In this life, I loved my father most of all." - Can Yücel

### Episode 27

"There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood, / The nearer bloody." - William Shakespeare.

Literary source: Macbeth Act II, Scene III

### Episode 28

"Don't get too attached to anyone in this world. Even your shadow abandons you in darkness." - Anonymous (La Edri).

### Episode 29

“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?"- Rainer Maria Rilke

Literary source: Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose

### Episode 30

"Gluing something broken back together doesn't make it whole again." - Ibn Rüşd

### Episode 31

"Three things exhaust a person the most: to forgive, to be quiet when they're hurting, and to dream of things which they know cannot be." - Chuck Palahniuk

### Episode 32

"My heart is a broken clock. It always stops at you." - Turgut Uyar

### Episode 33

"Some doors seem shut to us because we are standing behind them and not in front of them." - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

### Episode 34

"A string snaps and the harmony is ruined forever." - Yahya KEmal Beyatlı

## Season 2

### Episode 35

"Yes, one can lie by keeping silent" - Stefan Zweig

Literary source: Clarissa

### Episode 36

"And I will fight - for the things I accept as true, for that which I believe to be right. For all that I find beautiful. And for everyone." - Nazım Hikmet

Lıterary source: Şiirler 7 – Son Şiirleri

### Episode 37

"Cowards utilize deception and traps, the brave fight with their hearts" - Ceylin Erguvan Kaya

Unlike the rest of the quotes for the series where quotes are usually sourced to some form of existing literary work, the quote for episode 37 is actually a line (a tweet) by Ceylin Erguvan Kaya herself in episode 37.

### Episode 38

"If I put up a wall towards you, it'll be with the bricks you gave me." - Kemalettin Tuğcu

Literary source: Yeraltında Bir Şehir

### Episode 39

"Was this city meant for only one person? You left and it was left empty." - Özdemir Asaf

### Episode 40

"You may think wrongly, you may perceive and act wrongly, but your feelings cannot be wrong" - Edith Wharton

### Episode 41

"Every person, sooner or later, makes up a story about themselves thatt they accept as their life." - Max Frisch

### Episode 42

"Every time you run away from one thing, you run straight towards something else" - Michael Balint

### Episode 43

"Life is a cruel teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson second." - Andre Gide

### Episode 44

"Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret." - Jean de la Fontaine

### Episode 45

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” - Oscar Wilde

In Turkish, the quote is attributed to Oscar Wilde, however the quote itself is by Voltaire.

### Episode 46

"I don't want to know anyone well enough to know when they are lying" - Tezer Özlü

### Episode 47

"The grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break" - William Shakespeare

Literary source: Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III

### Episode 48

"You think you're escaping and run into yourself." - James Joyce

Literary source: Ulysses

### Episode 49

"You are the knife I turn inside myself" - Franz Kafka

Literary source: Letters to Milena

### Episode 50

"You don't know how many defeats, how many tears and how much heartache it cost me to stand proudly just the once." - Frida Kahlo

### Episode 51

"I don't know how to love only a little. It's because I love so much that I am so hurt." - Didem Madak

Literary source: Ah'lar Ağacı

### Episode 52

"Whatever I left in my wake is ash. Therefore, I am the fire." - Friedrich Nietzsche

### Episode 53

"With each sigh the heart loses yet another drop of blood" - William Shakespeare

Literary source: Hamlet, Act IV, Scene VII

This quote is referring to the line of the King:

*And then this “should” is like a spendthrift sigh,*

*That hurts by easing. But to the quick of th’ ulcer:*

### Episode 54

"A person that grows cold once, never feels cold again" - Georg Büchner

### Episode 55

"It takes a single step to get from the best to the worst" - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Literary source: Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

### Episode 56

"...and I cannot stop thinking how many times we've died in order to live." - Onat Kutlar

### Episode 57

"Everything passes. Only a thick grief remains." - Turgut Uyar

### Episode 58

"One does not get to be picky about a harbour during a storm" - Irvine Welsh

### Episode 59

"One drowns not because they fell into the water, but because they failed to get out of it." - Mevlana

### Episode 60

"That which makes love true is the fight. You don't leave people you love to the whims of fate." - Lev Tolstoy.

### Episode 61

"No matter where people go, they are headed to their deaths." - Kemal Tahir

### Episode 62

"Later on, cities will separate us, we will never meet again. Even coincedence will not bring us together. One of us may even die, and the other will never know." - Nazim Hikmet

### Episode 63

"Unless you live through the pain, you will never get out of it." - State Prosecutor Ilgaz Kaya

The quote for episode 63 is actually a direct reference to Season 1 Episode 4 where Ilgaz says this line to Ceylin.

## Season 3

### Episode 64

TBA

1. ↑ http://www.literaturepage.com/read/thusspakezarathustra-78.html
2. ↑ https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play\_view.php?WorkID=antonycleo&Act=4&Scene=14&Scope=scene
3. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/406443-no-guilt-is-forgotten-so-long-as-the-conscience-still
4. ↑ https://theconversation.com/the-essential-is-invisible-to-the-eye-the-wisdom-of-the-little-prince-in-lockdown-143095
5. ↑ https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/buddha\_133884
6. ↑ https://florenceezekafor.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/wise-saying-to-succeed-consult-three-old-people-chinese-proverb/
7. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/36051-before-you-embark-on-a-journey-of-revenge-dig-two
8. ↑ http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2727/
9. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/673542-si-te-caes-te-levanto-y-sino-me-acuesto-contigo
10. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005313-when-i-had-all-the-answers-the-questions-changed
11. ↑ https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/david\_russell\_381230
12. ↑ Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
13. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7749032-even-within-the-most-beautiful-landscape-in-the-trees-under
14. ↑ https://absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/macbeth/commentary/act\_ii.htm
15. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/686233-how-can-i-keep-my-soul-in-me-so-that
16. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/gonderi/213713217
17. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/876941-a-ip-kalma-st-ne-sevebilirim-hem-de-nas-l-dile-benden-ne
18. ↑ https://youtu.be/kCKgPqc22ak?t=1771
19. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/sana-duvar-orduysem--462878
20. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/tek-kisilik-miydi-ki-bu-sehir-sen-gidince-bombos-k--484399
21. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/ama-yanlis-hissedemezsin--1258834
22. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/gonderi/171299799
23. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/541013-nothing-weighs-on-us-so-heavily-as-a-secret
24. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1282424-no-snowflake-in-an-avalanche-ever-feels-responsible
25. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/tanimak-istemiyorum-kimseyi--1147209
26. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6001-think-you-re-escaping-and-run-into-yourself-longest-way-round
27. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7637077-you-are-the-knife-i-turn-inside-myself-that-is
28. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/bir-dik-durusun--1151256
29. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/gonderi/189586452
30. ↑ https://www.demlisozler.com/soz/geride-biraktigim-ne-varsa-kul-ates-benmisim-demek.html
31. ↑ https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/hamlet/read/4/7/
32. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/razi-misin-vazgeciyor-musun--1420928
33. ↑ https://1000kitap.com/durmadan-dusunuyorum-ne-kadar-olduk-yasamak-icin--1271734
34. ↑ https://www.cafrande.org/turgut-uyar-her-sey-akip-gider-bir-kati-huzun-kalir/
35. ↑ https://youtu.be/wQhPzwi6pzg?t=177