James Joyce Quotes

“God made food, the devil the cooks.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:God

“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”

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

topic:heart

“Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it.”

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

topic:heart

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:heart silence

“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.”

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

topic:religion belief

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”

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

topic:words music language

“there is no word tender enough to be your name”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:words

“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:education humanity

“The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.”

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

topic:future past present

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:future past present

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