The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Another life! A life of grace and virtue and happiness! It was true. It was not a dream from which he would… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all! — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church:… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ, with His divine understanding of every understanding of our human nature, understood that not all men were called to the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“He had neither companions nor friends, church nor creed. He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others, visiting his relatives… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“...the modern mind...is interested above all in subtleties, equivocations and the subterranean complexities which dominate the average man and compose his life…modern… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
