402 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

Love’s feet are always pleased to step on ashes.

As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don’t decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That’s the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

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!

Time is not a field, to be measured in rods, nor a sea, to be measured in miles; it is a heart beat.

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow’s got to be calm and old and toothless: When you’re an old gaffer with no teeth, it’s easy to say: ‘Damn it, boys, you mustn’t bite!’ But, when you’ve got all thirty-two teeth...

Keep your distance, boss! Don’t make men too bold, don’t go telling them we’re equal, we’ve got the same rights, or they’ll go straight and trample on your rights; they’ll steal your bread and leave you to die of hunger. Keep your distance, boss, by all the good things I wish you!

Only after I’ve seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.