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Quotes About Soul

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The canary began to sing again. The sun had struck it, and its throat and tiny breast had filled with song. Francis gazed at it for a long time, not speaking, his mouth hanging half opened, his eyes dimmed with tears. The canary is like man's soul, he whispered finally. It sees bars round it, but instead if despairing, it sings. It sings, and wait and see, Brother Leo: one day its song shall break the bars.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Take care, Friars!" he cried. "If the yearning is broken off for even an instant, the wings become chains again. Stay vigilant, fight, keep the torch of your soul burning day and night. Strike! Forge the wings! I'm going-I am in a hurry to speak to God. I'm going… These are my final words: Strike! Forge the wings!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
What is love? It's not empathy, nor kindness. Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes. Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes. But love takes just one. The two get together into one. They don't separate. The I and the you disappear. I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR..
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Sa fi jurat ca sufletul, e si el, un animal cu plamani si nari, ca are nevoie de mult oxigen si ca se inabusa in praf si printre prea numeroase rasuflari
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
La mia anima viene da mondi migliori ed ho un'inguaribile nostalgia delle stelle.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I would fill my soul with flesh, my flesh with soul
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Dios es un incendio, hermano León. Arde. Y nosotros ardemos con Él.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Mi-as exersa perfect cele cinci simturi, pielea intreaga, pentru a se desfata si a intelege. Mi-as umple sufletul cu carne. Mi-as umple carnea cu suflet
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
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
You, too, have a devil inside you but you still don't know his name and because you don't know his name, you suffocate. Baptize him, Boss, and you'll find relief.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want—but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our souls, revealing to them their real, though unknown, desire. This is the secret, Brother Leo. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Sufletul omului e aidoma lutului, neÈ™lefuit; neprelucrat înc?, cu porniri grosolane, dintr-o bucat?.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Everything seems to have a soul – wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, do you hear me, absolutely everything.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
He's dead." "His deliverance has come," said someone else. "The two friends have parted and returned to their homes," a third person whispered, "the flesh to the soil and the soul to God.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Death is not a door which closes; it is a door which opens. It opens, and you enter." "Enter where?" "The bosom of God.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Semnul lasat de Dumnezeu cand atinge omul se numeste moarte.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh...and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
A alma humana é inteiramente lama, é bruta, não trabalhada, tem sensações ainda grosseiras e rudes, não consegue prever nada de nítido, de certo.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis