More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
