All James Joyce Quotes
- When I die Dublin will be written on my heart. Die
- What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? Began
- His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide. Cork
- Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must… Friendship
- Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her… Beyond
- What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But… Air
- My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial Inspiration
- Signatures of all things I am here to read. All
- Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. Cross
- My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out. Eye
- Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things… Adventurer
- When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides,… Agamemnon
- I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander… Alexander
- Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey… Cleft
- Places remember events. Events
- Always see a fellows weak point in his wife. Always See
- Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the… All
- An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. Exile
- You cannot eat your cake and have it. Cake
- Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and… Angry
- Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the… Arrests
- The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances… Artist
- A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed… Age
- The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted… Artist
- Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. Age