James Joyce quotes

Shut your eyes and see. (James Joyce)
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce
When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.
James Joyce
Love loves to love love.
James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce
Thought is the thought of thought.
James Joyce
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
James Joyce
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. (James Joyce)
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce
God made food; the devil the cooks.
James Joyce
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
James Joyce
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
James Joyce
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
James Joyce
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. (James Joyce)
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
James Joyce
Life is too short to read a bad book.
James Joyce
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce