James JoyceIf he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series e… ▶351Reflection
James JoyceIf Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. ✨ James Joyce (2013). Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated), p.1910, Delphi Classics373Truth
James JoyceThere is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. ✨ Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. James Joyce: The Critical Heritage. Book by Ro… ▶341HopeReadingTime
James JoyceWhen a man is born...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. ✨ 'A Portra… ▶363Love
James JoyceSome people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ag… ▶342DeathHumanityLife
James JoyceThe voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that hav… ▶342Truth
James JoyceWhy is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? ✨ James Joyce (2016). THE DEAD (Modern Classics Series), p.… ▶375Death
James JoyceWhite wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.331Truth
James JoyceVery gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined. ✨ James Joyce (2013). Delphi C… ▶331Humor
James JoyceChristopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.353Reflection
James JoyceWriting in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. ✨ James Joyce (2016).… ▶342Reading
James JoyceIt 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… ▶364ReadingSadness
James JoyceMy heart is quite calm now. I will go back. ✨ James Joyce (2016). James Joyce The Dover Reader, p.242, Courier Dover Publications331LoveReading
James JoyceDrugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character. ✨ James Joyce (2016). ULYSSES (Modern Classics … ▶354LifeTime
James JoyceDeal with him, Hemingway!321Politics
James JoyceUlysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.321Hope
James JoyceEvery 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 ours… ▶343LifeLove
James JoyceThe intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM! ✨ James Joyce (2013). Delphi Works of James Joyce (Illustrated), p.649, Delphi Classics354Politics
James JoyceWhat was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? ✨ James Joyce (2016). James Joyce: T… ▶344Reading
James JoyceI fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy. ✨ Ulysses (1922) p. 31344Life
James JoyceTime's ruins build eternity's mansions. ✨ James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). Ulysses, p.910, Oxford Paperbacks333Time
James JoyceHe comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this? ✨ James Joyce (2016). The Complete W… ▶333Reading
James JoyceLove loves to love love. ✨ Ulysses (1922)367Love
James JoyceNo one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse. ✨ James Joyce (1967). Dubliners, p.14, Lulu.com334Thought
James JoyceWhen I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water. ✨ Ulysses (1922) p. 12335Reading
James Joyce(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Pa… ▶357HumanitySadnessTruth
James JoyceRead your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. ✨ James Joyce (2015). Ulysses, p.114, James Joyce379LifeReading
James JoyceTerence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine… ▶302DeathReadingSadness
James JoyceGentle 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 ho… ▶346DeathLoveReading
James JoyceSometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of… ▶368DeathSadnessThought
