Quotes by : James Joyce

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

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.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...

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

For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.....

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be....

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork ....

The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.