1. People
    2.  › 
  2. James Joyce
James Joyce photo

James Joyce Quotes

Total quotes: 22
“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
“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
“I remember only ideas and sensations.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Ideas, Sensation, Memory
“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
“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
“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
“Who chose this face for me?”
— Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses
Tagged: Identity, Where Do We Come From?, Questions
“ 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
“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
loading next page...