402 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which burns within me God!

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!

No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...

Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!