Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.

We are not simple people who believe in happiness; nor weaklings who crumple to the ground in distress at the first reverse; nor skeptics observing the bloody effort of marching humanity from the lofty heights of a mocking, sterile wit. Believing in the fight, though we entertain no illusions about it, we are armed against every disappointment.

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.

All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."and the almond tree blossomed.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.