List of Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

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Nikos Kazantzakis
Total Quotes 164
Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!
Wine Men Hands
There's a devil inside me which cries, "you're not the son of the carpenter, you're the son of king david! you are not a man, you are the son of man whom daniel prophesied." and still more: "the son of god! and still more: god!
Kings Son Men
O sun, great oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, i love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.
Song Heart Play
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
Soul Cry Commentary
Overdraw me, lord, and who cares if i break.
Who Cares Lord Break
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. new generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. how? by cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.
Father Struggle Kissing
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.
World This World Hidden Meaning
Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.
Time Doe Village
Good lord, how can the rich bear to die?
Bears Rich Lord
Lord, bend me, or i shall rot. lord do not bend me too much, for i shall break. lord bend me too much, who cares if i break!
Who Cares Too Much Lord
Once more i realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. it is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
Men Bird Heaven
Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.
Believe Heart Justice
  • Born: February 18, 1883
  • Died: October 26, 1957
  • Occupation: Writer
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