Best Nikos Kazantzakis Quotations
- When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to… Drown
- Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. All
- I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we… Astonishment
- You can knock on a deaf man's door forever. Deaf
- 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 what… Any
- What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. Bread
- If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will… All
- There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba Boss
- All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you… Actually Live
- so few in reality are the true necessities of man Few
- Life's true face is the skull. Face
- Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we… Bird
- The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet. Complicated Life
- The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant. All
- The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient. Oneself
- It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his… Aphrodite
- I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill… Antagonist
- How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with… Balderdash
- When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I… Bound
- The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly,… Brutish
- I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound… Brazier
- Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time. Doe
- By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it. Believe
- How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never… Black
- The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. Arena
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