Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes
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Nikos Kazantzakis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
If you have faith, a splinter from an old door will become a holy relic. And if you have no faith the entire holy cross will become an old door.
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?
Time is not a field, to be measured in rods, nor a sea, to be measured in miles; it is a heart beat.
I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will. Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ
You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will. Within even the most unworthy of men there is a servant of God, asleep.
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. An eclipse of God ... an eclipse of God
There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba
Lord, bend me, or I shall rot.
Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!
Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!
I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light.
I knew that over and above the truth, there exists another duty which is much more important and much more human.
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.
I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.
Whoever is rich, and is a communist, is an idiot," he would say. " Whoever is poor, and is not a communist, is a bigger idiot.
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as
if I was going to die any minute.
if I was going to die any minute.
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
It's all because of doing things by halves and saying things by halves, being good by halves, that the world is in the mess it's in today.
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
At such times [drunk] all the doors of a woman's being are opened. The sentinels relax and a kind word is as powerful as gold or love.
But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.