James Joyce Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!

  James Joyce

  Fall, Eye, Angel

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

• A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

  James Joyce

  Angel, Errors, Way

  James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

• Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth... Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Reality, Race

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

• Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

  James Joyce

  Romantic, Jesus, Youth

• One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

  James Joyce

  Differences, Literature, Youth

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