"Zorba the Greek" Quotes

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

I always feel infinitely humiliated by people's hospitality. It's like being shown into someone's underwear.

I like humans most when they leave me alone.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

To be alive-whether you are dead or alive, it is miraculous.

I felt an indescribable, infinite tenderness. I felt rage at human idiocy, at the blindness of the whole world, which does not allow men to see what they ought to see, or feel as they ought to feel.

True love is an act of total surrender.

You must suffer your way to the light through darkness.

The mother is everything; she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.

Chaos is the law of nature; order is the dream of man.