More Quotes by James Joyce
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
Love loves to love love.
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.