Nikos Kazantzakis

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man’s ancestor, but his descendant.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

Nikos Kazantzakis

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

Nikos Kazantzakis

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

Nikos Kazantzakis

When everyone drowns and I’m the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I’m the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

Nikos Kazantzakis