Nikos Kazantzakis

I was ill before I fell ill.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I’ve stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what’s going to happen tomorrow. What’s happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

Nikos Kazantzakis

If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Let your youth have free reign, it won’t come again, so be bold and no repenting.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free – not the Holy Sepulcher – but that God buried in matter and in our souls.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

Nikos Kazantzakis

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

Nikos Kazantzakis