James Joyce Beautiful Quotations

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.