| "An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile." James Joyce |
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"Heart of my heart, were it more,
More would be laid at your feet." James Joyce Quotes |
| 'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake James Joyce |
| A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Quotes |
| A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce |
| A man's errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce Adages |
| According to his brother Stanislaus . . . 'Unhappiness was like a vice.' He was cold and distant except with those closest to him, but when, on his mother's death, he discovered a bundle of letters that his father had written to her before they were married, he spent the whole afternoon reading them 'with as little compunction as a doctor or a lawyer . . . puts questions.' When he had finished, Stanislaus asked him: 'Well?' 'Nothing,' James Joyce answered curtly and rather contemptuously. Nothing, thought Stanislaus, for the young poet with a mission, but clearly something for the woman who had kept them all those years of neglect and poverty. James Joyce Remarks |
| 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 |
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| Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. James Joyce |
Buy a book in brown paper
From Faber and Faber
To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper.
Sevensinns in her singthings,
Plurabelle on her prose,
Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows. James Joyce Sayings |
| Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job. James Joyce |
| Every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow. James Joyce Popular Quotes |
| 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 Remarks |
| He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this? James Joyce Quotes |
| History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken. James Joyce |
| History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce Sayings |
| I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. James Joyce |
| I belong to the faubourg Saint-Patrice called Ireland for short James Joyce |
| I regard him as the whitest man I know. He is down on his luck at present owing to the mortgaging of his extensive property at Agendath Netaim in faraway Asia Minor, slides of which will now be shown. James Joyce |
| I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need. James Joyce |
| I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms James Joyce |
| I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. James Joyce Popular Quotes |
| I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality. James Joyce |
| Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce Remarks |
| 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 unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul. James Joyce |
| Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce |
| Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. 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 Remarks |
| My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire James Joyce Popular Quotes |
| Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce |
| Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police. James Joyce |
| Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own. James Joyce |
| 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 |
| Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. James Joyce |
| To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life. James Joyce |
| We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory. James Joyce Quotations |
| 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 |
| What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces? James Joyce |
| Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. James Joyce Adages |
| Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not. James Joyce |
| When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water. James Joyce Popular Quotes |
| When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove. James Joyce Remarks |
| 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 Popular Quotes |
| 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 |
| You cannot eat your cake and have it. James Joyce Popular Quotes |
| You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. James Joyce |
| Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. James Joyce Quotations |
| [Buck Mulligan, upon giving the old milk maid a coin] James Joyce Quotes |
| [Final words of Stephen Daedalus] James Joyce |
