James Joyce Mind Quotations

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

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.

The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

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.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

By the age of 45, I knew I could no longer start a sentence with a mention of strudel. My fingers would want to do it but my mind just wouldn't react.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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