"We come from a dark abyss, we end……" — Nikos Kazantzakis

"We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life."

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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105 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and…
The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become…
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my…
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with…
Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it…
As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with…
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but…
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the…
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers…
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a…
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective… — Tammy Bruce
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies… — Joseph Campbell
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity. — Sally-Ann Roberts
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged… — Lewis Mumford
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come… — Felix Dennis
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure… — A. E. Housman
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand… — Winston Churchill
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those… — Bertolt Brecht
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the… — Thomas Huxley

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