36 James Joyce Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote

Irish - Novelist February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941 See also: Quotes about James Joyce

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Today Future Tomorrow Day I Am

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Failure Mistakes Discovery Portals

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Me Battles Behind Your

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Man Intelligence Genius Mistakes His

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Poetry Always Sense Against

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.

Busy Way Will Immortality

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Age World Passion Better

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Church Human Philosophy Human Being

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

God Creation Artist Like

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

You Home Yourself Way

Top 10
James Joyce
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

You Men Only Now

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Funny America Everyone He Last

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Food Bad Well Meat

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Best Thoughts Men Brainy

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Time Pen Quiet Room

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Women Men Curves Emotion Intellect

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Love Family World Love Is

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Heart Die Will Dublin

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Ego Like Just Nations

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

Happy Balance Lost Ground

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Mind Words Through Cold

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Patriotism People Nation Place Same

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Sober Ireland Stiff

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Reason Writing Reading Torture

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Old Her Ireland Sow

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Art Pleasure Cannot Part Recognize

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

World Possible He Without

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Life Reading He Make

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Soul Mouth My Soul Teeth

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

You Woman Heaven Violence

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Fear Words Big Unhappy

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Art Servant Irish Cracked

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

New Must First She

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Age Legal Name Will

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

God You Hear Would

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Romantic Moment Youth Satan

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