James Joyce Quotes


Buy a book in brown paper From Faber and FaberTo see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper.Sevensinns in her singthings,Plurabelle on her prose,Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows. James Joyce 122
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce Discovery 111
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. James Joyce Experience 106
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. James Joyce Fear 103
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Discovery 93
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? James Joyce Love 90
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce art 89
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. James Joyce Heaven 85
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce History 85
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. James Joyce Humor 83
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce Poetry 83
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. James Joyce Women 82
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. James Joyce Eats 80
Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabidura aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabidura de los otros por s mismo errando entre las asechanzas del mundo. James Joyce Independence 79
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. James Joyce Authors 78
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. James Joyce Irish 77
The artist like the God of creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails James Joyce Artists 76
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher. James Joyce Learning 73
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. James Joyce Home 72
Stately plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. James Joyce Opening lines 70
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office as something large secure and fixed and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male. James Joyce Respect 68
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Discovery 66
Let my country die for me. James Joyce War 65
Heart of my heart, were it more,More would be laid at your feet. James Joyce Charity 65
Every bond is a bond to sorrow. James Joyce Sorrow 64
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 ourselves. James Joyce Life 64
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. James Joyce Religion 63
Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound. James Joyce Language 63
A nation is the same people living in the same place. James Joyce Nation 63
I am a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. James Joyce Existence 63
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. James Joyce Artist 63
Your battles inspired me not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. James Joyce Mind 62
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself for the words so beautiful and sad like music. James Joyce Tears 58
The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed. James Joyce Pick 56
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past whether in life or revery he had heard their tale before. James Joyce Heart 55
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. James Joyce Authors 52
To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life. James Joyce Life 51
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce Age 51
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. James Joyce Big 51
And if he had judged her harshly If her life were a simple rosary of hours her life simple and strange as a birds life gay in the morning restless all day tired at sundown Her heart simple and willful as a birds heart James Joyce Spirituality 49
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. James Joyce Ireland 49
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 world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. James Joyce Beauty 48
While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give. James Joyce Charity 47
Deal with him Hemingway James Joyce Pain 45
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I cant look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history. James Joyce Murder 44
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. James Joyce Faith 43
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. James Joyce best 42
Nations have their ego, just like individuals. James Joyce Ego 41
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. James Joyce Heart 41
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. James Joyce Again 41

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