COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

8/26/2010

Zorba quotes

Zorba:
If a woman sleeps alone, it puts a shame on all men.


Alexis Zorba:


Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it. You've got everthing except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...


Basil: Or else?
Alexis Zorba: ...he never dares cut the rope and be free.


Alexis Zorba: What kind of man are you, don't you even like dolphins?






Madame Hortense: I too fought breasts to breasts.




Basil: I don't want any trouble.
Alexis Zorba: Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.


Alexis Zorba: How can I not love them? Poor weak creatures... and they take so little, a man's hand on their breast, and they give you all they got.


Alexis Zorba: Those damn cats!


Alexis Zorba: Silly old bitch. She's not alone, she's with Suleiman Pasha having a hell of a time.


Alexis Zorba: On a deaf man's door, you can knock forever!


Alexis Zorba: No more fooling around, not in this place. We'll pull our pants up and make a pile of money.


Basil: I... couldn't help.


Alexis Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die?
Basil: I don't know.
Alexis Zorba: What's the use of all your damn books if they can't answer that?
Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions like yours.
Alexis Zorba: I spit on this agony!




Madame Hortense: You are cruel! Why you abandon me? The whole village is laughing at me. Where is my white satin? Where is my wedding dress?




Alexis Zorba: All right, we go outside where God can see us better.




Alexis Zorba: There will be no funeral. She was a Frank, she crossed herself with four fingers. The priest will not bury her like everybody else.




Alexis Zorba: The lamb, it will burn!


Alexis Zorba: Hey boss, did you ever see a more splendiferous crash?


Alexis Zorba: God has a very big heart but there is one sin he will not forgive
[slaps table]
Alexis Zorba: if a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go. I know because a very wise old Turk told me.






Alexis Zorba: Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house,everything. The full catastrophe.



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