807 Quotes by James Joyce

To learn one must be humble. But life is the greatteacher.

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

It’s something fails us. First we feel. Then we fall. And let her rain now if she likes. Gently or strongly as she likes. Anyway let her rain for my time is come. I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights?

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

You die for your country... I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I didn’t want it to die. Damn death. Long live life.

To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot. There were two cocks that you turned and water came out: cold and hot. He felt cold and then a little hot: and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!

Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.