402 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

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.

Gradually I began to understand that it does not matter very much what problem, whether big or small, is tormenting us; the only thing that matters it that we be tormented, that we find a ground for being tormented. In other words, that we exercise our minds in order to keep certainty from turning us into idiots, that we fight to open every closed door we find in front of us.

هذا العالم أحجيَة ، و الإنسان ليسَ إلّا حيوان مُفترِس ...

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men—never!

I am always filled with melancholy. It’s as if I see everything black. Everything wounds me deeply.

Death had entered my life with a familiar and well-loved face, like a friend come to call for you and who waits patiently in a corner until you have finished your work.

Thy designs are a bottomless pit. How can I descend into this pit to examine it? Thou lookest thousands of years into the future and then Thou judgest. What today seems an injustice to man's minute brain becomes, thousands of years hence, the mother of man's salvation. If what today we term injustice did not exist, perhaps true justice would never come to mankind.

الأفضل أن ترحَل بخفّة و تلتزِم العزلَة ، المناخ الطبيعيللإنسان ,,

Όλα είναι σωστά στον παρδαλό, ανισόρροπο, πάμπλουτο τούτον κόσμο", "Όμοια η αλήθεια είναι χυμένη παντού, αδιόρατη, διαπεραστική, αρμυρή σαν το δάκρυο.