Quotes

Jealousy is therefore only a fear, and a jealous man is a coward.

Indeed, it is terrible even to think that neither our hatreds nor our loves depend on our free will.

The more you think about life, the more its ambushes open up and its pathless wastes appear.

All philosophy is sad. If you talk about happiness for long, you will end up feeling a little unhappy.

And wishing to hide from shame, I drink, and wish that I were drunk for ever; then I do not see vice, a society steeped in gloom, then I do not even see the shame that I too am a man.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Love loves to love love.

Shut your eyes and see.

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.