Nikos Kazantzakis

Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Life's true face is the skull.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Who knows, perhaps God is simply the search for God.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Love responsibility. Say: It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay.…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“ Sa fi jurat ca sufletul, e si el, un animal cu plamani si nari, ca are nevoie de mult oxigen si…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Soarele urca sus pe bolta, ajuns in inaltul cerului, se opri o clipa. Se afla acum deasupra nisipurilor desertului. Scoarta pamantului exala…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“This rebel would but toss his head, and men,slaves,horses, towers...all the accursed levels above him...would come tumbling down. God always works in…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had fallen…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“The higher we went the more our spirits seemed to become purged and exalted. Once again I felt the influence on the…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Is he good? Or is he bad? That's the only thing I ask nowadays. And as I grow older—I'd swear this on…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“The people cast themselves down by the fuming boards while servants cut the roast, mixed jars of wine and water, and all…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: each time I…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break!

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“I an not tired, but the night is coming.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis