Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Dare to be Free.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do.

Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off of the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.

Take a walk on the wild side.

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

I've always been in a rebel.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.