Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

I'll only live 'til I die

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

I enjoy every moment because I believe that once we die, that's it. We're not coming back.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.

The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

Don't die until you're dead.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?