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James Joyce Quotes

Total quotes: 38
“If you loved me or if you knew what love was you would not have left me.”
— James Joyce, Exiles
Tagged: Love, breakup
“Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music.”
— James Joyce, Selected Letters Of James Joyce
Tagged: Love Letters
“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Happiness, Past, Choice
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Mistakes, Errors, volitional, Choice, self determination, self control, Free Will, portals of discovery, Learning, Experience, Motivational
“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Lonely, Sad, romance, Connection
“I remember only ideas and sensations.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Ideas, Sensation, Memory
“As I am. As I am. All or not at all.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Poetic, Self-awareness
“There is not a particle of my love that is not yours.”
— James Joyce, Selected Letters Of James Joyce
Tagged: Stunning Love Letters, Cute Things To Say To Her
“Absence, the highest form of presence.”
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Tagged: Absence, Presence
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Deep, Experience, Poetry
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
— Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses
Tagged: History, Nightmare
“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?”
— James Joyce, Ulysses(The Gabler Edition)
Tagged: Words, Darkness, Human Nature
“I often think of the beautiful name you have.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses(The Gabler Edition)
Tagged: name, Thoughts, Love, admiration, beauty
“Fall if you will, but rise you must.”
— James Joyce, Finnegans Wake(Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tagged: Fall, rise, Failure, Success
“First we feel. Then we fall.”
— James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tagged: Feelings, emotions, Love, Falling In Love
“I think of you so often you have no idea.”
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Tagged: Thinking of You
“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”
— James Joyce, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JAMES JOYCE: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters
Tagged: Battle, inspire, inspiration, obvious, Material, Fight, Win, Mind, Thinking, Intelligence, Thought
“Hold onto the here, the now, through which the future plunges into the past.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses(Shine Classics)
Tagged: Time, Now, This Moment
“I am yours. If I died this moment, I am yours. Forget me. Forget me and love me again as you did the first time. Forget me and come back to me again.”
— James Joyce, A Play In Three Acts
Tagged: Relationship, love quotes, Commitment, Ownership, Trust, Loyalty
“I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Existence, Time and Space, Time & Identity, span, Living, Life
“Not a day passes that I do not see ourselves, you and me, as we were when we met first. Every day of my life I see that.”
— James Joyce, Exiles
Tagged: Love, romance, loving one another, Love & Contentment, Love & Happiness
“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, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Tagged: Crush, Love at First Sight, In love
“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, Ulysses
Tagged: Banned Books
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: first lines of books
“riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
— James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tagged: Obscure First Lines
“God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain. ”
— Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses
Tagged: Baroque, Creation
“The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”
— James Joyce, Dubliners: Araby
Tagged: Personification, Examples of Personification
“Cruel it seems. Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder. Death.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Death, Loss, Love is Loss
“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Running, Escaping, Self-Trust, Self-Reliance, Self Confidence, running to yourself
“Who chose this face for me?”
— Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses
Tagged: Identity, Where Do We Come From?, Questions
“The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Relationalism
“You knew me once, but you won’t know me twice.”
— James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Change, Starting Over
“I love you deeply and truly, Nora. I feel worthy of you now. There is not a particle of my love that is not yours. In spite of these things which blacken my mind against you I think of you always at your best… Nora, I love you. I cannot live without you.”
— James Joyce, Selected Letters Of James Joyce
Tagged: Love Letters, Love, I cannot Live
“ It's in the silence after you feel you hear.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Soothing Language, Where The Words Come From
“Love loves to love love.”
— James Joyce, 25 Quotes on Love from Great Authors
Tagged: Timeless Love Quotes, Romantic Novels, Define Love
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls 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 defense the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.”
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Tagged: Silence, Exile, Pretension, emigration, obstinacy, non serviam
“I have loved in her the image of the beauty of the world, the mystery and beauty of life itself, the beauty and doom of the race of whom I am a child, the images of spiritual purity and pity which I believe in as a boy.

Her soul! Her name! Her eyes! They seem to me like strange beautiful blue wild-flowers growing in some tangled, rain-drenched hedge. And I have felt her soul tremble beside mine, and have spoken her name softly to the night, and have wept to see the beauty of the world passing like a dream behind her eyes.”
— James Joyce, Selected Letters Of James Joyce
Tagged: Stunning Love Letters
“Day by day: night by night: lifted, flooded and let fall. Lord, they are weary; and, whispered to, they sigh. Saint Ambrose heard it, sigh of leaves and waves, waiting, awaiting the fullness of their times, diebus ac noctibus iniurias patiens ingemiscit. To no end gathered; vainly then released, forthflowing, wending back: loom of the moon. Weary too in sight of lovers, lascivious men, a naked woman shining in her courts, she draws a toil of waters.”
— Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses
Tagged: Time
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