Quotes by James Joyce
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.
