Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die. Well, why don't they die?

The idea of death is something that doesn't make sense to a lot of people. But to bring something back - or vampires who never die - is a logical fantasy for a human being.

The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed." "He is hope." The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.

I shall not completely die.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

Not all of me shall die.

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.