James Joyce: Trending quotes

“He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul.”

“There's no friends like the old friends.”

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”

“It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.”

“While you have a thing it can be taken from you….. but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.”

“Love loves to love love.”

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

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”

“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”

“In the particular is contained the universal.”

“Me. And me now.”

“Shut your eyes and see.”

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”

“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.”

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