What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: each time I… — 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
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“They had no fear of death, and whoever has no fear of death—the centurion had often meditated on this here in the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed,… — 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 Image
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen... — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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 Image
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
