Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.