James Joyce - Human Quotes

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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

James Joyce
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.

James Joyce
'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry

James Joyce
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.

James Joyce
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

James Joyce
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
As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human life at least 2/7, viz. 20 years are passed in sleep.

James Joyce
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

James Joyce