# Quote — Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

> I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

- Author: [Orhan Pamuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk.md)
- Book: [My Name Is Red](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red.md)
- Page: 3
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk#My_Name_Is_Red_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/i-am-nothing

## More from this book

> Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

p. 353 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/let-me-first.md)

> A letter doesn’t communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, “Go on then, read what the letter tells you!” whereas the dullwitted will say, “Go on then, read what he’s written!”

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/a-letter-doesnt.md)

> The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in that paradise where happy mares and stallions live, open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

p. 282 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/the-beauty-and.md)