James Joyce: Trending quotes (page 7)

“I'll tickle his catastrophe.”

“Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.”

“Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

“[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.”

“[…] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.”

“Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.”

“The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!”

“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

“Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.

Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.”

“I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.”

“In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.”

“Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.”

“Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.”

“In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”

“Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.”

“More mud, more crocodiles.”

“Three quarks for Muster Mark! (383.1)”

“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.”