807 Quotes by James Joyce

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.

Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse...

Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On.

And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too, says the citizen.

In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously.

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.

We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too.