James Joyce Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?

  James Joyce

  Eye, Blue, Hands

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.431, Courier Dover Publications

• Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

  James Joyce

  Ideas, Fire, Flames

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.138, Collector's Library

• In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

  James Joyce

  Pain, Flames, Fire

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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

  James Joyce

  Fire, Soul, Hell

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

• Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

  James Joyce

  Evil, Hell, Intense

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.243, Courier Dover Publications

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