James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joycewas an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1882
CityRathgar, Ireland
CountryIreland
death blessed path
Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.
flames ideas fire
Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.
life teacher life-is
Life is the great teacher.
children play desire
I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
catastrophe
I'll tickle his catastrophe.
autumn break-off weather
It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.
heart calm my-heart
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
events remember
Places remember events.
wife weak-points weak
Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.
heart feet charity
Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.
humor silence needs
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
cake have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
humanity age quality
But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..
change fire frying hoping life nice pan praying repose
We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory.