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Quotes About Heart

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?
~ James Joyce
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
~ James Joyce
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
~ James Joyce
I am proud to be an emotionalist.
~ James Joyce
She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
~ James Joyce
When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart.
~ James Joyce
A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of, or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory..
~ James Joyce
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.
~ James Joyce
You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.
~ James Joyce
They listened feeling that flow endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine.
~ James Joyce
The sad quiet grey-blue glow of the dying day came through the window and the open door, covering over and allaying quietly a sudden instinct of remorse in Stephen's heart.
~ James Joyce
He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.
~ James Joyce
But he was not sick there. He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
~ James Joyce
Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes.
~ James Joyce
The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.
~ James Joyce
They have no mercy on that here or infanticide. Refuse christian burial. They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already.
~ James Joyce
I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown. - Give it a name, citizen, says Joe. - Wine of the country, says he. - What's yours? says Joe. - Ditto MacAnaspey, says I. - Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how's the old heart, citizen? says he.
~ James Joyce
All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her.
~ James Joyce
Mother is packing my new secondhand clothes. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. 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 conscious of my race.
~ James Joyce
He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood. Beside the savage desire within him to realise the enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred.
~ James Joyce
If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?
~ James Joyce
Beingless beings. Stop! Throb always without you and the throb always within. Your heart you sing of. I between them. Where? Between two roaring worlds where they swirl, I. Shatter them, one and both. But stun myself too in the blow. Shatter me you who can. Bawd and butcher, were the words. I say! Not yet awhile. A look around.
~ James Joyce
Žmon?s nežino, kokios pavojingos gali b?ti meil?s dainos. Jud?jimai, kurie pasaulyje sukelia revoliucijas, yra gim? iš sapn? ir vizij? valstie?io širdy, kalno šlaite. Jiems žem? - ne eksploatuojama dirva, o gyva motina.
~ James Joyce
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place." ? James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
~ James Joyce