James Joyce Quotes

"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."
-James Joyce in Agreement quotes.

"Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul."
-James Joyce

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
-James Joyce

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
-James Joyce in Mistakes quotes.

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
-James Joyce

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives."
-James Joyce

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
-James Joyce

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

"I call that a scumhead."
-James Joyce

"'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
-James Joyce in History quotes.

"Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."
-James Joyce

"I am also sure that there is no such thing as free- thinking in as much as all thinking must be must be bound by its own laws."
-James Joyce

"Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it."
-James Joyce