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Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes about Heart

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The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Life, Struggle, Heart
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Horse, Stars, Heart
Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .

Nikos Kazantzakis
Heart, Mind, Do Not Fear
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Heart, Sleep, Men

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.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Heart, Ideas, Sunrise
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Inspiring, Heart, Long
"Nikos Kazantzakis" by Helen Kazantzakis, (p. 529), 1968.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Heart, Men, Names
Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Heart, Hands, Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!

Nikos Kazantzakis
Sweet, Heart, Dark
Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Pain, Struggle, Heart
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Believe, Heart, Justice

O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Song, Heart, Play
"The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel" by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar, 1938.

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