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

Quote by James Joyce

Topics: James Joyce Quotes

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as...

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as...

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous...

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous...

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what...

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what...

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals...

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals...

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to...

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to...

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in...

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in...

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he...

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he...

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at...

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at...

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that...

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that...

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say...

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say...

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a...

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a...

In every girls life there will always be those three guys...the one she loves, the...

In every girls life there will always be those three guys...the one she loves, the...

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me...

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me...