James Joyce

"That is Irish, he said: being Irish, the greatest honor we can know."

"So potent was my father's intellectual influence upon me that I could not escape it."

"Lonely men speak to us of lonely things."

"You can either be right or you can be happy."

"Only a few days separate us from those who rest."

"In the particular is contained the universal."

"I am silenced by your silence."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"His soul had already passed away."

"I sing the body electronic."

"The real battle is between the world and your soul."

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

"When the day weighs on your shoulders like a leaden cope, remember those who came before."

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

"Better one lifetime on your feet than generations on your knees."

"His life had taken the form it was to hold forever."

"The eternal note of sadness in beautiful things."

"Humanity is a literary fiction."

"His heart was on fire with an anguish of desire."

"Distance does not break the tie of blood."

"She was the wind, and he was the weathercock."

"Paralysis. He felt the word. A cold lucidity of mind."

"I wish you would help me to praise God in English as well as you do in Irish."

"Music is the soul of life."

"The artist is the lover of nature, therefore he is her slave."

"We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law."

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living."

"A man could change himself if he wished."

"Better to give than to receive."

"The dead know nothing. It is only the living who can change the world."