Life Quotes by James Joyce

Life is too short to read a bad book.

— James Joyce

Love loves to love love.

— James Joyce

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

— James Joyce

Life is the great teacher.

— James Joyce

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

— James Joyce

“All seemed weary of life even before entering upon it.”

— James Joyce

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

— James Joyce

“This in no life for man or woman, insults and hatred and history.”

— James Joyce

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

— James Joyce

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

— James Joyce

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

— James Joyce

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

— James Joyce

“What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?”

— James Joyce

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

— James Joyce

“Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good.…

— James Joyce

“Another life! A life of grace and virtue and happiness! It was true. It was not a dream from which he would…

— James Joyce

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence,…

— James Joyce

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you…

— James Joyce

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives,…

— James Joyce

“Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give…

— James Joyce

“Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very…

— James Joyce

“Everything in Paris is gay," said Ignatius Gallaher. "They believe in enjoying life--and don't you think they're right? If you want to…

— James Joyce

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle…

— James Joyce

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church:…

— James Joyce

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit…

— James Joyce

“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful…

— James Joyce

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I…

— James Joyce

“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do…

— James Joyce

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath…

— James Joyce

“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do…

— James Joyce

In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or…

— James Joyce

“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended.…

— James Joyce

Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds…

— James Joyce

“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted…

— James Joyce

“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind…

— James Joyce

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

— James Joyce

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

— James Joyce

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

— James Joyce

“I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I…

— James Joyce