James Joyce Quotes
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
Love loves to love love.
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul.
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.
Life is the great teacher.
Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
Love, yes. Word known to all men.
Do fish ever get seasick.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life!
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.
How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
White roses and red roses: those were beautiful colours to think of.
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.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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.
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlasts a lifetime.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
But it's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life.
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 be sexual intercourse.
One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope.
Around us fear, descending
Darkness of fear above
And in my heart how deep unending
Ache of love!
He (Jesus) 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?
