“Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.”

Finnegans Wake

“Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart.”

Ulysses – Telemachus

“Coming from the vegetarian. Only wegebobbles and fruit . Don’t eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.” (Ulysses, “Lestrygonians”)

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

Ulysses – Nestor

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”

Ulysses – Nestor

“Landlord never dies they say. Other steps into his shoes when he gets his notice to quit. They buy the place up with gold and they still have all the gold.” (Ulysses, “Lestrygonians”)

“Pineapple rock, lemon platt, butter scotch. A sugarsticky girl shovelling scoopfuls of creams for a christian brother.”

Ulysses- Lestrygonians

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”

Ulysses (Ithaca)

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”

Ulysses (Ithaca)

“Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words.”

Ulysses – Scylla and Charybdis

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

Ulysses – Scylla and Charybdis