807 Quotes by James Joyce

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

As you are now so once were we.

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.