James Joyce, Ulysses Quotes

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Let my country die for me.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...

She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.

You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?