Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Who ever said that one was born just once?

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

We are created by being destroyed.