James Joyce Quotes
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? It is the same told of all. Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. (683)
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling,
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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
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In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen. (419.9-10)
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Boor, bond of thy herd,Tonight stretch full by the fire!
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
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Seraphim,The lost hosts awaken
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
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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.
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
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Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken you, ninny? asks Kev, expecting the answer guess. (286.25-27)
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My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?
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Vast wings above the lambent waters broodOf sullen day.
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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.