James Joyce Soul Quotations

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light...

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.