7 Quotes by Panayotis Cacoyannis

I remembered reading somewhere that dreams that had been dreamt had already served their purpose, and that attempting to interpret them was not only futile, it was actually counter-productive.

Kindness should always begin with the truth.

It had all to do with keeping intact a thread that was a gateway to the past, with all the love it had contained not lost and remembered but always alive. Life was labyrinthine, but ultimately all its tangles were united.

By clinging on to grief so implacably, he had made himself impervious to life.

We're a nation of hypocrites pretending to be prudes, that's what we are.

Idle hands were the devil’s tools, and an effective bureaucracy could never be too convoluted.

A tortured man but a marvellous writer, complex and yet also entirely simple. As I always say, one is never too young to be reading Kafka, and never too old to be reading him differently.