James Joyce Quotes

“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

“The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the beginning of death.”

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

topic:death

“Let my country die for me.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:death war

“The fourth member of the party, however, was too excited to be genuinely happy.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:happiness

“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.”

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

topic:time

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:time past

“Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?”

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

topic:time eternity

“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...”

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

topic:freedom belief silence

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:self way home

“This race and this country and this life produced me . . . I shall express myself as I am.”

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

topic:self

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