You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

James Joyce

James Joyce

life love religion

Related Quotes

The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

— James Joyce

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

— James Joyce

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

— James Joyce

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

— James Joyce

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

— James Joyce

ElseLoveLove Is