32 quotes
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
"Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned."
on Love
"He is cured by faith who is sick of fate."
on Faith
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
on Death
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
on Philosophy
"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
"He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses."
"You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?"
"Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound."
on Communication
"Every bond is a bond to sorrow."
on Relationships
"Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods."
on Art
"The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past."
on Time
"To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic."
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
"A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
on Wisdom
"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."
on Humor
"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize."
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
on History
"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
on Inspirational
"To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher."
on Learning
