James Joyce Quotes

“To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a...”

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

topic:society

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:passion age

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

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

topic:reading poetry

“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once...”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:reading past

“I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.”

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

topic:loneliness

“After a quarter of a century of married life, she had very few illusions left.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:success

“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:foolishness

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:mind

“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.”

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

topic:desire

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