Nikos Kazantzakis's best-known quotes (with the work)
The top 3 according to 37 votes from people: I said to the almond tree: "Sister, speak to me of God." And the almond tree blossomed. · We have only a single moment at our disposal. Let us make that moment an eternity. There is no other immortality. · Even if I were sure I would go to Paradise, I would beg God to let me take the longest road…. (Updated Jul 21, 2021.)
"I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free", "I said to the almond tree" and "What does free mean?": the sentences by Nikos Kazantzakis everyone knows, from The Saviors of God and The Odyssey to Report to Greco, each with the work it comes from.
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Top 16
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I said to the almond tree: "Sister, speak to me of God." And the almond tree blossomed.
"Report to Greco", 1961.
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We have only a single moment at our disposal. Let us make that moment an eternity. There is no other immortality.
"Report to Greco", 1961.
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Even if I were sure I would go to Paradise, I would beg God to let me take the longest road…
"Report to Greco", 1961.
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The highest virtue is not to be free, but to fight for freedom.
Essay "The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises", 1927.
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Do not stoop to asking: "Will we win? Will we be defeated?" Fight!
Essay "The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises", 1927.
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If you can, look fear in the eye, and fear will take fright and flee.
"Report to Greco", 1961.
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I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free.
Epitaph on his grave in Heraklion, from "The Saviors of God", 1927.
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Once I saw a bee drowned in honey, and I understood.
"Report to Greco", 1961.
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The human heart is a tangle of caterpillars: blow on it, Christ, and let them become butterflies!
Novel "The Fratricides", 1963.
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Rich is the one who does not desire wealth; poor is the rich man who desires still more.
Novel "God's Pauper: St. Francis of Assisi", 1956.
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What is happiness? To live through every unhappiness. What is light? To look at every darkness with an unclouded eye.
Essay "The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises", 1927.
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Freedom means fighting on earth without hope!
Epic poem "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel", 1938.
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What a terrible climb from the ape to man, from man to God.
"Report to Greco", 1961.
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What does free mean? Someone who is not afraid of death.
Novel "The Fratricides", 1963.
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There are no ideas; there are only people who carry ideas, and the ideas take on the stature of the person who carries them.
Novel "The Fratricides", 1963.
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We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
Essay "The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises", 1927.
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