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More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
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.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
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.
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.
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.
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!
