Frases de Nikos Kazantzakis

„Não espero nada. Não temo nada. Sou livre“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

em grego: Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα. Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτα. Είμαι ελεύθερος
citado em Tradução & comunicação - Edição 6 - Página 38, Associação Brasileira de Tradutores, Faculdade Ibero-Americano de Letras e Ciências Humanas (São Paulo, Brazil), 1985
Atribuídas
Variante: Eu nada espero. Eu nada temo. Eu sou livre.

„Você tem o seu pincel, tem suas tintas, pinte o paraíso e depois entre nele.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

„Sou fraco, efêmera criatura feita de barro e sonho. No entanto, sinto todo o poder do universo girando dentro de mim.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

„Se acreditarmos apaixonadamente em algo que ainda não existe, nós o criamos. O não-existente é aquilo que não desejamos suficientemente.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

Como citado em Organizational Vision, Values and Mission (1993) by Cynthia D. Scott, Dennis T. Jaffe and Glenn R. Tobe, p. 80

„Eu sou o marinheiro de Odysseus com coração de fogo mas com mente cruel e limpa.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

Toda Raba (1934)

„Existe apenas uma mulher no mundo. Uma mulher, com muita faces.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro A Última Tentação de Cristo

A Última Tentação de Cristo (1951)

„As portas do céu e do inferno são adjacentes e idênticas.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro A Última Tentação de Cristo

A Última Tentação de Cristo (1951), capítulo 18

„Paraíso é aqui, meu bom homem. Deus não me deu outro paraíso.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

Freedom and Death (1956)

„I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

„I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro Zorba the Greek

Fonte: Zorba the Greek

„True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

„Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Contexto: God cries to my heart: "Save me!"
God cries to men, to animals, to plants, to matter: "Save me!"
Listen to your heart and follow him. Shatter your body and awake: We are all one.
Love man because you are he.
Love animals and plants because you were they, and now they follow you like faithful co-workers and slaves.
Love your body; only with it may you fight on this earth and turn matter into spirit.
Love matter. God clings to it tooth and nail, and fights. Fight with him.
Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom.
Do not condescend to ask: "Shall we conquer? Shall we be conquered?" Fight on!

„Enlighten the dark blood of your ancestors, shape their cries into speech, purify their will, widen their narrow, unmerciful brows.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Contexto: Enlighten the dark blood of your ancestors, shape their cries into speech, purify their will, widen their narrow, unmerciful brows. This is your second duty.
For you are not only a slave. As soon as you were born, a new possibility was born with you, a free heartbeat stormed through the great sunless heart of your race.

„Free yourself from race also; fight to live through the whole struggle of man.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Contexto: It is not you talking. Nor is it your race only which shouts within you, for all the innumerable races of mankind shout and rush within you: white, yellow, black.
Free yourself from race also; fight to live through the whole struggle of man.

„Where are we going? Do not ask! Ascend, descend. There is no beginning and no end.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Contexto: Where are we going? Do not ask! Ascend, descend. There is no beginning and no end. Only this present moment exists, full of bitterness, full of sweetness, and I rejoice in it all.

„Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

„The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro A Última Tentação de Cristo

Fonte: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 10

„"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro Report to Greco

"The Son", Ch. 4, p. 45
Report to Greco (1965)

„Gather your strength and listen; the whole heart of man is a single outcry.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, livro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Contexto: Gather your strength and listen; the whole heart of man is a single outcry. Lean against your breast to hear it; someone is struggling and shouting within you.
It is your duty every moment, day and night, in joy or in sorrow, amid all daily necessities, to discern this Cry with vehemence or restraint, according to your nature, with laughter or with weeping, in action or in thought, striving to find out who is imperiled and cries out.
And how we may all be mobilized together to free him.