Nikos Kazantzakis Frases famosas
“Não espero nada. Não temo nada. Sou livre”
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.
“Existe apenas uma mulher no mundo. Uma mulher, com muita faces.”
A Última Tentação de Cristo (1951)
Como citado em Organizational Vision, Values and Mission (1993) by Cynthia D. Scott, Dennis T. Jaffe and Glenn R. Tobe, p. 80
“As portas do céu e do inferno são adjacentes e idênticas.”
A Última Tentação de Cristo (1951), capítulo 18
Nikos Kazantzakis: Frases em inglês
Egyptian high priest, Book X, line 90
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Contexto: A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength
to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom.
I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist,
a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down;
it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees.
Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.
"Prologue", p. 23
Report to Greco (1965)
Contexto: General, the battle draws to a close and I make my report. This is where and how I fought. I fell wounded, lost heart, but did not desert. Though my teeth clattered from fear, I bound my forehead tightly with a red handkerchief to hide the blood, and ran to the assault.
Before you shall pluck out the precious feathers of my jackdaw soul, one by one, until it remains a tiny clod of earth kneaded with blood, sweat, and tears. I shall relate my struggle to you — in order to unburden myself. I shall cast off virtue, shame, and truth — in order to unburden myself. My soul resembles your creation "Toledo in the Storm"; girded by yellow thunderbolts and oppressive black clouds, fighting a desperate, unbending battle against both light and darkness. You will see my soul, will weigh it between your lanceolate eyebrows, and will judge. Do you remember the grave Cretan saying, "Return where you have failed, leave where you have succeeded"? If I failed, I shall return to the assault though but a single hour of life remains to me. If I succeeded, I shall open the earth so that I may come and recline at your side.
Listen, therefore, to my report, general, and judge. Listen to my life, grandfather, and if I fought with you, if I fell wounded and allowed no one to learn of my suffering, if I never turned my back to the enemy: Give me your blessing!
Pharaoh, Book X, line 688
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Contexto: Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns;
it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies,
they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm,
the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air.
I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song,
for I know well that only words, that words alone,
like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.
“The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God"”
As quoted in Nikos Kazantzakis (1968) by Helen Kazantzakis, p. 507
Contexto: The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.
“Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force.”
"Massacre", Ch. 10, p. 88
Report to Greco (1965)
Contexto: Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.
Sometimes it seems to me that this world is another Sodom and Gomorrah just before God's passage above it. I think the terrible foot can already be heard approaching
"Jerusalem", Ch. 20, p. 249
Report to Greco (1965)
"The Son", Ch. 4, p. 49
Report to Greco (1965)
Contexto: I thank God that this refreshing childhood vision still lives inside me in all its fullness of color and sound. This is what keeps my mind untouched by wastage, keeps it from withering and running dry. It is the sacred drop of immortal water which prevents me from dying. When I wish to speak of the sea, woman, or God in my writing, I gaze down in my breast and listen carefully to what the child within me says. He dictates to me; and if it sometimes happens that I come close to these great forces of the sea, woman, and God, approach them by means of words and depict them, I owe it to the child who still lives within me. I become a child again to enable myself to view the world always for the first time, with virgin eyes.
“Inhuman solitude made of sand and God.”
"The Desert. Sinai.", Ch. 21, p. 276
Report to Greco (1965)
Contexto: Inhuman solitude made of sand and God. Surely only two kinds of people can bear to live in such desert: lunatics and prophets. The mind topples here not from fright but from sacred awe; sometimes it collapses downward, losing human stability, sometimes it springs upward, enters heaven, sees God face to face, touches the hem of His blazing garment without being burned, hears what He says, and taking this, slings it into men's consciousness. Only in the desert do we see the birth of these fierce, indomitable souls who rise up in rebellion even against God himself and stand before Him fearlessly, their minds in resplendent consubstantiality with the skirts of the Lord. God sees them and is proud, because in them his breath has not vented its force; in them, God has not stooped to becoming a man.
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 412
Variante: You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Fonte: Zorba the Greek
“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
Fonte: Zorba the Greek
“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
and the almond tree blossomed.”
The Fratricides (1964)
Fonte: Report to Greco
“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.”
Fonte: Zorba the Greek
“You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.”
Fonte: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3831088 Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 2, No. 2, Nikos Kazantzakis (1971 - 1972)
“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
Fonte: Zorba the Greek
“We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Contexto: We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back; we die in every moment. Because of this many have cried out: The goal of life is death! But as soon as we are born we begin the struggle to create, to compose, to turn matter into life; we are born in every moment. Because of this many have cried out: The goal of ephemeral life is immortality! In the temporary living organism these two streams collide … both opposing forces are holy. It is our duty, therefore, to grasp that vision which can embrace and harmonize these two enormous, timeless, and indestructible forces, and with this vision to modulate our thinking and our action.
“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.”
Report to Greco (1965)
“There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.”
Disputed
Fonte: This occurs in the film The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), based upon the novel by Kazantzakis, but has not been located in the novel itself.