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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.
It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat
I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.
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.
Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.
The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece
There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba
You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.
He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.
What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?
God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.
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!
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
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?
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.
I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'
By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.
Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.
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.