James Joyce Quotes

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

“As you are now so once were we.”

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

“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.”

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

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

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

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”

“Let my country die for me.”

“Love loves to love love.”

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”

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

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

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

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