James Joyce Quotes

“I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:money

“I fear those big words . . . which make us so unhappy.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:greatness

“He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.”

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

topic:peace

“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”

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

topic:art

“Art . . . is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

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

topic:art

“There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.”

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

topic:art

“Shut your eyes and see.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:eyes sight

“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...”

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

“History . . . is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:history

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