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“…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 drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink.�� - The Narrator.”
― 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 something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!�� - The Narrator.”
― 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 call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“هذه هى الحرية . أن تهوى شيئاً ما ، وأن تجمع قطع الذهب وفجأة تتغلب على هواك وتُلقى بكنزك فى الهواء، وأن تتحرر من هوى لتخضع لهوى آخر أكثر نبلاً منه ، أليس هذا شكلا آخر من العبودية ؟ أن تكرس نفسك لفكرة ، لعرقك ، لله ؟”
― نيكوس كازانتزاكيس, Zorba the Greek

“He opened his shirt and lowered his trousers.
'Bring the light over!' he ordered.

I held the lamp close to the thin, tanned body. What with deep scars, bullet and sword marks, his body was like a collander.

'Now look at the other side!'

He turned round and showed me his back.

'Not a scratch on the back, you see. Do you understand? Now take the lamp back.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Ve tahtından indirmek istediğiniz bir despotsa söz konusu olan, önce onun içinizde kurulu tahtını ortadan kaldırın. Bir zorba özgür ve gururlu olanlara nasıl hükmedebilir, eğer onların kendi ö����ü����ü��lerinde bir ���ǰ�������ı��, kendi gururlarında bir utanç yoksa? Ve üstünüzden atmak istediğiniz bir yükümlülükse söz konusu olan, bu yükümlülük size dayatılmadı, onu siz seçtiniz.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“In this way, without understanding how, I entered sleep together with Christ's passion and the nightingales' warbling, just as the soul will enter Paradise.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Lots of people have been afraid of the vanity of things! I´ve overcome it. Lots reflect hard; I have no need to reflect. I don´t rejoice over the good and don´t despair over the bad. If I hear that the Greeks have taken Constantinople, it´s just the same to me as if the Turks were taking Athens.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“There are mountains in the world,' I said, 'which are huge, immense and dotted all over with monasteries. And in those monasteries live monks in saffron robes. They stay seated, with crossed legs, for one, two, six months at a time, thinking of one thing and one thing only. One thing, do you hear? Not two - one! They don't think of women and lignite or books and lignite, as we do; they concentrate their minds on one and the same thing, and they achieve miracles. You have seen what happens when you hold a glass out to the sun and concentrate all the rays onto one spot,
Zorba? That spot soon catches fire, doesn't it? Why? Because the sun's power has not been dispersed but concentrated on that one spot. It is the same with men's minds. You do miracles, if you concentrate your mind on one thing and only one. Do you understand, Zorba?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“هذه هى الحرية . أن تهوى شيئا ما ، وأن تجمع قطع الذهب وفجأة، تتغلب على هواك وتُلقى بكنزك فى الهواء . وأن تتحرر من هوى ، لتخضع لهوى آخر أكثر نبلا ًمنه . لكن أليس هذا شكلاً آخر من العبودية ؟ أن تكرس نفسك لفكرة ، لعرقك ، لله ؟”
― نيكوس كازانتزكيس - زوربا

“Could it be that the higher one’s master stands, the rope tying one to slavery is lengthened by the same amount? In that case, if we jump and frolic in a much wider domain, we die without ever discovering its boundaries.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek