Time Quotes by James Joyce

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

— James Joyce

“I am, a stride at a time”

— James Joyce

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

— James Joyce

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

— James Joyce

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

— James Joyce

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

— James Joyce

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

— James Joyce

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

— James Joyce

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

— James Joyce

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

— James Joyce

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

— James Joyce

James Joyce Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road…

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The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one…

— James Joyce

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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

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“...before all this has time to end the golden age must return with its vengeance. Man will become dirigible...”

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I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your…

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“Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.”

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Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

— James Joyce

“The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth,…

— James Joyce

“Why was he kneeling there like a child saying his evening prayers? To be alone with his soul, to examine his conscience,…

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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

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had…

— James Joyce

“And yet and yet! That strained look on her face! A gnawing sorrow is there all the time. Her very soul is…

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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of…

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“Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black…

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

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“Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all…

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“Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of…

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

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“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so…

— James Joyce

“Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of…

— James Joyce

“He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly…

— 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

“Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries…

— James Joyce

“Know all men, he said, time's ruins build eternity's mansions.”

— James Joyce

“He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and…

— James Joyce

“Amen.So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in…

— James Joyce

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of…

— James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this…

— James Joyce