James Joyce Quotes

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

mother

Tell me the smallest things about yourself so long as they are obscene and secret and filthy.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

A man of genius makes no mistakes.  His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

error genius mistakes discovery

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

old age passion

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.

artists art

I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning.

exile