Nikos Kazantzakis

A woman’s body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

Nikos Kazantzakis

Ah, if you could dance all that you’ve just said, then I’d understand.

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.

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.

Nikos Kazantzakis

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

Nikos Kazantzakis

As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

Nikos Kazantzakis

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

Nikos Kazantzakis