Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

Explore a curated collection of 21 quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazie — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever. — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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. — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my so — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cr — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one. — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
No. I don't believe in anything. How many times must I tell you that? I don't believe in anything anyone; only in Zorba. — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divi — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we ca — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting,Let your youth have free reign, it won't — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sa — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
…Man’s heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to d — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer with — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be fr — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek