Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Yunus Emre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Turkish poet Yunus Emre.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Yunus Emre also known as Derviş Yunus (1238–1328) was a Turkish folk poet and Islamic Sufi mystic who greatly influenced Turkish culture. His name, Yunus, is the Muslim equivalent to the English name Jonah. He wrote in Old Anatolian Turkish, an early stage of Turkish. The UNESCO General Conference unanimously passed a resolution declaring 1991, the 750th anniversary of the poet's birth, International Yunus Emre Year.

Turkish - Poet | 1238 - 1320

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A heart makes a good home for the friend.

Yunus Emre

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

Yunus Emre

If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

Yunus Emre

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Yunus Emre

I am the drop that contains the ocean

Yunus Emre

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Yunus Emre

The earth shall be left to no one.

Yunus Emre

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?

Yunus Emre

To love the world is to be afflicted.

Yunus Emre

My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

Yunus Emre

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Yunus Emre

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

Yunus Emre