John Michael > John's Quotes

“First we feel. Then we fall.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“We'll meet again, we'll part once more.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“..they were yung and easily freudened..”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low!”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Wonderlawn's lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she broke the glass! Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of sings (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world?”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Phall if you but will, rise you must.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Now patience; and remember patience is the great thing, and above all things else we must avoid anything like being or becoming out of patience.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“But all the time one and the same boundlessly identical life fills the universe and is renewed every hour in countless combinations and transformations. Here you have fears about whether you will resurrect, yet you already resurrected when you were born, and you didn’t notice it.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Despite the absence of fetters, chains, and guards, the doctor was forced to submit to his unfreedom, which looked imaginary.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“But it turns out that those who inspired the revolution aren't at home in anything except change and turmoil, they aren't happy with anything that's on less than a world scale. For them transitional periods, worlds in the making, are an end in themselves. They aren't trained for anything else, they don't know anything except that.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.”
― Jim Harrison

“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
― James Joyce