James Joyce Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

  James Joyce

  Love, Life, Ocean

  James Joyce (1992). “Poems and Exiles”, ePenguin

• An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

  James Joyce

  Art, Joy, Feelings

  James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

• 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.

  James Joyce

  Beautiful, Believe, Love You

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

  James Joyce

  Children, Play, Desire

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.21, Courier Dover Publications

• I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

  James Joyce

  Desire, World, Arms

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

• Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

  James Joyce

  Beauty, Long, Desire

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.329, Courier Dover Publications

• Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

  James Joyce

  Wind, Rose, Desire

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.718, Simon and Schuster

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