Quote

Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

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
Degrees
Interstellar
Cold
Freezing
Alone
Bloom
Zero
Space
Dawn
Proximate
Point
Thousands
Incipient
Feel
Absolutes
Intimations
Feels
Absolute
Fahrenheit

More quotes by James Joyce

Image
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce
Image
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
James Joyce
Image
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce
Image
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.
James Joyce
Image
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
James Joyce
Image
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
James Joyce
Image
What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.
James Joyce
Image
Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
James Joyce
Image
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.
James Joyce
Image
...rapid motion through space elates one.
James Joyce
Image
In the particular is contained the universal.
James Joyce
Image
There's no police like Holmes.
James Joyce
Image
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
James Joyce
Image
His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
James Joyce
Image
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James Joyce
Image
Absence, the highest form of presence.
James Joyce
Image
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
James Joyce
Image
I'll tickle his catastrophe.
James Joyce
Image
I am proud to be an emotionalist.
James Joyce
Image
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
James Joyce