Quote

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

James Joyce

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Joyce
Age: 58 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 2
Died: 1941
Died: January 13
Author
Father
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Teacher
Writer
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
Secret
Palaces
Dark
Tyrants
Heart
Weary
Secrets
Tyranny
Hearts
Dethroned
Silent
Stony
Willing
Tiredness

More quotes by James Joyce

Image
Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
James Joyce
Image
Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.
James Joyce
Image
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
James Joyce
Image
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
James Joyce
Image
Does nobody understand?
James Joyce
Image
Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.
James Joyce
Image
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
James Joyce
Image
For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
James Joyce
Image
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
James Joyce
Image
Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
James Joyce
Image
Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
James Joyce
Image
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce
Image
Love loves to love love.
James Joyce
Image
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
James Joyce
Image
I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
James Joyce
Image
Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.
James Joyce
Image
Redheaded women buck like goats.
James Joyce
Image
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.
James Joyce
Image
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
James Joyce
Image
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
James Joyce