Life's true face is the skull. Nikos Kazantzakis More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis More Quotes From Nikos Kazantzakis I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else. Nikos Kazantzakis messagessaidlife When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness. Nikos Kazantzakis sunriseheartideas Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. Nikos Kazantzakis journeycountrytravel All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see? Nikos Kazantzakis mysteryhavenswriting I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light. Nikos Kazantzakis dutylightdarkness It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat Nikos Kazantzakis hatsmatter To succeed, you must first believe you can. Nikos Kazantzakis billiardsbelievefirsts Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons. Nikos Kazantzakis shellsbombssoul I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen. Nikos Kazantzakis smellsightnight How simple and frugal a thing is happiness. Nikos Kazantzakis chestnutssimplesea Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life. Nikos Kazantzakis purpose The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action. Nikos Kazantzakis hard-workactingaction The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. Nikos Kazantzakis helldoorsheaven 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? Nikos Kazantzakis sacrificepassionmean Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection. Nikos Kazantzakis resurrection Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss? Nikos Kazantzakis bosstreeson God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave. Nikos Kazantzakis hoodcavesrain Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one. Nikos Kazantzakis follyevery-manmen It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. Nikos Kazantzakis variationfemalebeautiful Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer. Nikos Kazantzakis mountainhearthands
