James Joyce quotes - Page : 5

" She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind. " # Tyranny # Morality # Cities and City Life

" He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely. " # Death and Dying # Love # Poetry and Poets

" He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Resignation

" But there was no harshness in the eyes which, looking at the world from under their tawny eyebrows, gave the impression of a man ever alert to greet a redeeming instinct in others but often disappointed. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a predicate in the past tense. " # Ecstasy # Life and Living # Habit

" Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. " # Age and Aging # Love # Ancestry

" History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. " # Dreams # Twentieth Century # Thoughts and Thinking

" It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness... (271) " # Science and Scientists # Love # Age and Aging

" The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. (683) " # Arts and Artists

" Fall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. (4.15-17) " # Education # Love # Critics and Criticism

" But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus (12.32-33) " # Lies and Lying # Problems # Life and Living