More Quotes by James Joyce
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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.
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
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
