807 Quotes by James Joyce

We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

Neden sürekli gülümsediğini ve dudaklarının neden o kadar tükürükle ıslanmış olduğunu merak ettim. Sonra onun felç olduğunu ve benim de onun günahını bağışlamak istermiş gibi hafifçe gülümsemekte olduğumu fark ettim.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Life, he himself once said.. is a wake, livit or krikit, and on the bunk of our bread-winning lies the cropse of our seedfather, a phrase which the establisher of the world by law might pretinately write across the chestfront of all manorwombanborn.

Lilly, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet.

Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.

My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

Birkaç gelişigüzel laf dışında hiç konuşmamıştık onunla, ama adı çılgın kanıma bir çağrı gibi geliyordu.

L'amor matris, genitivo, soggettivo e accusativo, è probabilmente l'unica cosa vera della vita. La paternità può essere una finzione legale.