Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes
Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes
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.
1741I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.
2772 You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
3655 How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
2779 Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
3432 If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
2594 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.
4418 If they were to ask me what road leads to heaven, I would answer them: the most difficult!
4500 Ο διάολος μπορεί και μπαίνει μονάχα στην Κόλαση, ο άγγελος μπορεί και μπαίνει μονάχα στ%
2161 Ο Χριστός είναι παντού, τριγυρίζει απόξω από το χωριό μας, χτυπάει την πόρτα μας, στέκετ%
1036 Ονειρεύομαι να φυσάει άνεμος δυνατός,
να πάρει μακρυά όλα τα σκουπίδια της ζωης μου.
1253 Und das Licht hat geschworen, nicht aufzugeben, aber es weiß, das es keine Rettung gibt, es wird sich nicht ergeben, es erlischt.
3464 Έχεις τα πινέλα, έχεις τα χρώματα, ζωγράφισε τον παράδεισο και μπες μέσα.
1963 Αν μια γυναίκα κοιμηθεί μόνη, ντροπιάζει όλους τους άντρες.
1685 Ο σωστός δρόμος είναι ο ανήφορος.
4527 Η πέτρα, το σίδερο, το ατσάλι δεν αντέχουν. Ο άνθρωπος αντέχει.
3442 Ερχόμαστε από μια σκοτεινή άβυσσο· καταλήγουμε σε μια σκοτεινή άβυσσο· το μεταξύ φωτε
2495 Δεν τον φοβάμαι το Θεό, αυτός καταλαβαίνει και συχωρνάει. Τους ανθρώπους φοβάμαι. Αυτοί
1570 Solange es Kinder gibt die hungern, gibt es keinen Gott!
2748 Είπα στη μυγδαλιά: «Αδερφή, μίλησέ μου για το Θεό». Κι η μυγδαλιά άνθισε.
4685 Κάθε Έλληνας που δεν παίρνει, ας είναι και μια φορά στη ζωή του, μια γενναία απόφαση, προ%B
1863 Και το φως ορκίστηκε να μην παραδοθεί, μα το ξέρει, σωτηρία δεν υπάρχει, δεν θα παραδοθεί
3349 Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
1897 It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
3406 What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.
3327 Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
3233 How ought we to love God, Father?" he asked in a whisper.
"By loving men, my son"
"And how ought we to love men?"
"By trying to guide them along the right path"
"And what is the right path?"
"The one that rises"
- Nikos Kazanzakis, Christ Recrucified
2682 …Man’s heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink.” - The Narrator.
3365 We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength, that we call nonexistent. Desire it, imbrue it with your blood, your sweat, your tears, and it will take on a body. Reality is nothing more than the chimera subjected to our desire and our suffering.
4993 ولمْ تكنْ عيونهم تشتعل، لقد أطفأت الحرية التوق إلى الحرية. وتمددت الحياة كالماء الهادئ
3790 Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα,δε φοβάμαι τίποτα, είμαι ελεύθερος.
4484 La mia anima viene da mondi migliori
ed ho un'inguaribile nostalgia delle stelle.
4230 The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
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