Desire Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

10 Desire quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

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Kazantzakis wrestles with the fire of longing in a handful of potent lines. This concise collection captures his existential intensity, offering a potent taste of his philosophical and literary depth.

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Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

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Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for…

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“By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed,…

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When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that…

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I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of…

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“We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength, that…

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“Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want—but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our…

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All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas,…

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“I did not know what I was going to do with my life; before anything else I wanted to find an answer,…

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“When I close my eyes to see, to hear, to smell, to touch a country I have known, I feel my body…

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“A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.”

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Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

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