402 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

I said to the almond tree, ''Friend, speak to me of God,'' and the almond tree blossomed.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.

Die every day. Be reborn again every day.

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

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?

Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die?