5 James Joyce Quotes on Emotion

James Joyce quotes on emotion

12. 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.

27. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

28. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

32. He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen.

63. Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.