I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream.… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had fallen… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“No, you're not free," he said. "The string you're tied to is perhaps no longer than other people's. That's all. You're on… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“I did not know what I was going to do with my life; before anything else I wanted to find an answer,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“We gaze with perplexity at the highest part of the spiral of force that governs the Universe. And we call it God. We could… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen... — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
“A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
“No, you're not free," he said. "The string you're tied to is perhaps no longer than other people's. That's all. You're on a long… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
