Quotes by : Nikos Kazantzakis

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with....

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're....

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which....

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form....

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness,....

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.