402 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity

I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light.

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break!

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.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

I was ill before I fell ill.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.