James Joyce Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”

“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.”

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

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

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”

“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

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