James Joyce Quotes About Exile

Quotes about: Exile

• I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

  James Joyce

  Life, Art, Believe

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

• An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

  James Joyce

  Humor, Silence, Three

• I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house?
  MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

  James Joyce

  Father, Mean, Home

• When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

  James Joyce

  Country, Men, Self

  James Joyce (1959). “Critical writings”

• No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

  James Joyce

  Country, Anger, Self

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.2236, e-artnow

• If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

  James Joyce

  Politics, Language, Exile

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