Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Earth, Paradise

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

• What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Wings, Giving

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

• Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco or Shanghai travels instantly, thanks to modern means of communication, to all Eastern peoples and fills them with enthusiasm and faith. This phenomenon is, of course, unprecedented in the history of man.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Communication, Mean, Army

• Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Heaven, Judgement, Earth

• The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Song, Air, Sirens

• We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Love Is, Men, Needs

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1988). “The last temptation of Christ”, Touchstone

• I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Crush, Strong, Believe

• May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Games, Giving, Gold

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

• All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Earth, Abyss

• A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Brother, Writing, Light

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

• Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Light, Flames, Secret

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

• Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Mean, Wings, Earth

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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