All James Joyce Quotes
- Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being… Another S
- I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust… Content
- The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles… Blend
- Redheaded women buck like goats. Buck
- All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday. All
- A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open… All
- The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. Born
- Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt… Brain
- When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once… Gone
- We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh Always Loyal
- You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought. Behold
- I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said… All
- Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory. Burst
- Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated… Broke
- For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers. Felt
- Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they… Adventure
- What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction? Avail
- Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But… Always Meeting
- I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom. Book
- He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds. Clouds
- This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. Country
- Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! Caesar
- Shut your eyes and see. Eye
- What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and… All
- He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could… Alone