Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

I have a rendezvous with life.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

Our time on Earth is so random.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

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.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

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

We die, because we live.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

I'll only live 'til I die