Quotes from work

Ulysses

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

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

“What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.”

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”

“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.”

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

“Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.”

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

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”

“She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.”

“Be just before you are generous.”

“Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.”

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

“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.”

“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”

“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”

“Thought is the thought of thought.”

“Let my country die for me.”