James Joyce Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old James Joyce quotes, James Joyce sayings, and James Joyce proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not. James Joyce
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. James Joyce
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. James Joyce
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well, then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it. James Joyce
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end. James Joyce
When the shy star goes forth in heaven / All maidenly, disconsolate, / Hear you amid the drowsy even / One who is singing by your gate. / His song is softer than the dew / And he is come to visit you. James Joyce
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts secrets weary of their tyranny, tyrants willing to be dethroned. James Joyce
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul. James Joyce
Shut your eyes and see. James Joyce
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are portals of discovery. James Joyce