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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. Love, Life, Ocean. James Joyce (1992). “Poems and Exiles”, ePenguin.
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- “Shut your eyes and see.” ― James Joyce.
- “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses.
- “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.” ― 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.”
- There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. James Joyce. Past, Flow, Eternal.
- Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
- Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it. James Joyce. Giving, Mind, Giving Back.
- Absence, the highest form of presence. James Joyce. Absence, Form, Highest.
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1. “Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” 2. “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” 3. “He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet’s soul.” 4. “I wanted real adventure to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not ha...
16. “I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that, in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, fatherland, or church, and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can. Using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and ...
31. “First, we feel. Then we fall.” 32. “First kiss does the trick. The propitious moment. Something inside them goes pop.” 33. “I did not know whether I would ever speak to her, or not, or if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp, and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wir...
41. “Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.” 42. “‘This race, and this country, and this life, produced me,’ he said. I shall express myself as I am.” 43. “Hold to the now, the here, through which all fu...
56. “When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.” 57. “It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.” 58. “I was a flower of the mountain. Yes, when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used, or shall I wear a red. Yes, and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall, and I thought well, as well him as another....
71. “My mouth is full of decayed teeth, and my soul of decayed ambitions.” 72. “The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is, is another question.” 73. “Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art—it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” 74. “Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a r...
81. “Secrets, silent, stony, sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts. Secrets weary of their tyranny. Tyrants willing to be dethroned.” 82. “Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.” 83. “You can still die when the sun is shining.” 84. “God made food. The devil cooks.” 85. “The important thing is not what we write,...
96. “Absence, the highest form of presence.” 97. “Too excited to be genuinely happy.” 98. “My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.” 99. “Have read little and understood less.” 100. “As you are now, so once were we.” 101. “Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.” 102. “Every bond is a bond to sorrow.” 103. “Whate...
111. “The glow of a late autumn sunset covered the grass plots and walks. It cast a shower of kindly, golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men who drowsed on the benches. It flickered upon all the moving figures—on the children who ran screaming, along the gravel paths, and on everyone who passed through the gardens.” 112. “Gazing up i...
126. “There’s no friends like the old friends.” 127. “The soul has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country, there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me, of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.” 128. “The light music of ...
Oct 4, 2023 · James Joyce on love: Although writing with ‘scrupulous meanness’, James Joyce’s writing has a beautiful softness to it, as can be attested by the following James Joyce quotes on love (There are also James Joyce love poems available, as he published three poetry collections): “Love loves to love love.”. – from Ulysses.
My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone? James Joyce. 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. James Joyce.
Sep 28, 2023 · “A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” – James Joyce “Love is never stationary. In the end, love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it. Simply put: love does.” – James Joyce
