I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay.… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle.… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary—it is necessary… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to… — 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
