Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Laughter, Wine

  "Zorba the Greek". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Ch. 23, 1946.

• 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

• Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Struggle, Men

  "Journey to the Morea".

• When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Joy, Fearless

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Ephemeral, Mud

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

• A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. [...] That by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Song, Mean

  "Report to Greco". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, transl. by P. A. Bien, Faber and Faber Limited, "Naxos", Ch. 11, p. 96, 1973.

• Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Night, Men

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

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