Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Change, Eye, Opportunity

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

• All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Country, Eye, Sea

• 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.'

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Eye, Men, Doe

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

• The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Real, Eye

• This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Morning, Eye, Perspective

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

• If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Nature, Rain, Flower

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

• Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Children, Eye, Reality

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

• Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Rain, Eye, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.647, Simon and Schuster

• The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Struggle, Eye, Night

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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