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Death gestured with his hands and bade the king thrice welcome.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)
If you love me, be patient. Look at the trees. Are they in a hurry to ripen their fruit?
The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!
The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)
Speak straight and clear! I only hear that manly prayer
which like a huge fist breaks my head against the stones.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. ... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Zorba the Greek (1946)
The essence of our God is STRUGGLE. Pain, joy, and hope unfold and labor within this struggle, world without end.
The Saviors of God (1923)
Enlighten the dark blood of your ancestors, shape their cries into speech, purify their will, widen their narrow, unmerciful brows.
The Saviors of God (1923)
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work the commentary on that cry.
Report to Greco (1965)
Behind all appearances, I divine a struggling essence. I want to merge with it.
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
Report to Greco (1965)
How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.
The Saviors of God (1923)
As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."
Zorba the Greek (1946)
Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.
Report to Greco (1965)
Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only!
Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap
together like two mighty wings and lift him high.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)
I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free.
The Saviors of God (1923)
I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free.
The Saviors of God (1923)
God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
Freedom and Death (1956)
Let us transfix this momentary eternity which encloses everything, past and future, but without losing in the immobility of language any of its gigantic erotic whirling.
The Saviors of God (1923)
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.