Quotes by : James Joyce

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult....

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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

My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice....

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,....

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange....

The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the....

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.