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Top 20 James Stephens Quotes (2025 Update)

James Stephens Quote: “What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.”

1. “What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.”

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James Stephens Quote: “We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.”

2. “We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.”

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James Stephens Quote: “I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.”

3. “I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.”

4. “Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.”

5. “Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?”

6. “Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?”

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James Stephens Quote: “You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.”

7. “You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”

8. “Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.”

9. “Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.”

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James Stephens Quote: “I would think Until I found Something I can never find; – Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.”

10. “I would think Until I found Something I can never find; – Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.”

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James Stephens Quote: “A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.”

11. “A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.”

12. “Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.”

13. “Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.”

14. “Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.”

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James Stephens Quote: “To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.”

15. “To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?”

16. “Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?”

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James Stephens Quote: “It is by love alone that we understand anything.”

17. “It is by love alone that we understand anything.”

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James Stephens Quote: “The chief business of the gods is to give protection and assistance to such of their people as require it; but... they cannot give any help until it is demanded, the free-will of mankind being the most jealously guarded and holy principle in life; therefore, the interference of the loving gods comes only on an equally loving summons.”

18. “The chief business of the gods is to give protection and assistance to such of their people as require it; but... they cannot give any help until it is demanded, the free-will of mankind being the most jealously guarded and holy principle in life; therefore, the interference of the loving gods comes only on an equally loving summons.”

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James Stephens Quote: “My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing – the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.”

19. “My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing – the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.”

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James Stephens Quote: “The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death.”

20. “The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death.”

— James Stephens

James Stephens Quote: “The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.”

21. “The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.”

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James Stephens Quote: “Even the wind had ceased, and there seemed to be nothing in the world but the darkness and himself. In that gigantic blackness, in that unseen quietude and vacancy, the mind could cease to be personal to itself. It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being.”

22. “Even the wind had ceased, and there seemed to be nothing in the world but the darkness and himself. In that gigantic blackness, in that unseen quietude and vacancy, the mind could cease to be personal to itself. It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being.”

— James Stephens

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