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.
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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.
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
