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Nikos Kazantzakis222
Greek writer 1883–1957
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“There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
This passage was used for Kazantzakis' epitaph: "Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δε φοβούμαι τίποτα, είμαι λεύτερος<!--[sic]-->."
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Variant translation: I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Nothing exists! Neither life nor death. I watch mind and matter hunting each other like two nonexistent erotic phantasms — merging, begetting, disappearing — and I say: "This is what I want!"
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. [Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δεν φοβούμαι τίποτα, λυτρώθηκα από το νου κι από την καρδιά, ανέβηκα πιο πάνω, είμαι λεύτερος. ] This is what I want. I want nothing more. I have been seeking freedom.
“The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (November 25, 1892)
Letters
Act II, scene 2, 12, line 243.
Eunuchus
“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) Russian chemist and inventor
“It will lead to nothing, I fear, sir”
Martin Joseph Routh (1755–1854) Classical scholar and college head
Remarked to William Palmer, on the eve of his 1840-1 journey to Russia to improve Anglican-Orthodox relations. The trip reaped little success; quoted in Notes of a Visit to the Russian Church in the Years 1840, 1841, by William Palmer, 1882, p. 10.