James Joyce Quotes

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:love reality

“Love loves to love love.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:love

“my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:love

“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.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:love friendship

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:life learning humility

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:life art

“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, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:life experience

“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:life simplicity

“Every life is 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

topic:life self way

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:life youth

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