Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

Everybody has a nightmare, and everybody apparently has falling dreams, and everybody has the drowning dream, and everybody has certain kinds of sexual manifestation dreams, as well as our stress dreams; I didn't study for the algebra test, I didn't study for my driving test, you know, all those dreams. I still have those dreams, and it's just such an interesting thing that our mind can turn against us, our own mind, you know we all have.

People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul.

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.