One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
JAMES JOYCEThe pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
More James Joyce Quotes
-
-
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE -
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
JAMES JOYCE -
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
JAMES JOYCE -
We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
JAMES JOYCE -
In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCE -
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE -
Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCE -
There’s no friends like the old friends.
JAMES JOYCE -
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCE -
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
JAMES JOYCE -
Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
JAMES JOYCE -
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
JAMES JOYCE -
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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 -
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCE






