Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

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

Nikos Kazantzakis

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• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Black
  • Light
  • Darkness

• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Think
  • Eyes
  • Chicago

• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Good
  • Education
  • Eyes

• When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • May
  • Me

• It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Black
  • Small

• The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Eyes
  • Notes
  • Wallet

• An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Picture

• I knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Truth

• When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them. They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Green

• My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Engagement

• And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Long
  • Death
  • Enlightenment

• Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Society
  • Eyes

• Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Up
  • Say

• Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Truth

• The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Great
  • Way

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

  

  Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Eyes
  • Darkness
  • Enlightenment