Nikos Kazantzakis quotes

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work the commentary on that cry. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust." View quote
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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 of the sea. Nothing else. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy-some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. View quote
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The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! (Nikos Kazantzakis)
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. View quote
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Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient. View quote
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The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis