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Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Nikos Kazantzakis quotes

Greek Writer February 18, 1883 – October 26, 1957

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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale. Nikos Kazantzakis
We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity Nikos Kazantzakis
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 ink! Nikos Kazantzakis
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggles. Nikos Kazantzakis
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the... Nikos Kazantzakis
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 see? Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo..."
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble. Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that..."
Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection. Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call..."
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. Nikos Kazantzakis
Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us. Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "Life's true face is the skull."
Life's true face is the skull. Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings."
Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings. Nikos Kazantzakis
You were saying you wanted to open the people's eyes. All right, you just go and open old uncle Anagnosti's eyes for him! You saw how his wife had to behave before him, waiting for his orders, like a dog begging. Just go now and teach them that women have equal rights with men, and that it's cruel to eat a piece of the pig while the pig's still raw and groaning in front of you, and that it's simple lunacy to give thanks to God because he's got everything while you're starving to death!...Let... Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good..."
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. Nikos Kazantzakis
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. Nikos Kazantzakis

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