Let my country die for me.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

By their fruits ye shall know them.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.