Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

We are all born marked for evil.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Foul as it is, Hell itself is defiled by the fouler presence of John.

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

'The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.