History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

Ulysses

Buy Ulysses at Amazon Buy Ulysses at Amazon
Read Ulysses at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

History

Speaker

Stephen Dedalus

Author

James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Ireland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 2.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by James Joyce about history: “History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
Download
A quote by James Joyce about history: “History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
Download
A quote by James Joyce about history: “History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote by James Joyce

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Buy A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at Amazon Buy A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at Amazon
Read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at Project Gutenberg
More information about this quote
Topic
Desire Hope

Author

James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The Egoist, 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Seamus Deane. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 5.

Another quote from the 1920s

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

More information about this quote
Topic
Propaganda

Author

Adolf Hitler
Source
Mein Kampf
Genre
Political literature Autobiography and memoir
Language
German
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

Another quote about History

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Read The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte at marxists.org
More information about this quote
Topic
History repeating itself History

Author

Karl Marx
Source
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Medium
Essay
Genre
Historical literature Political literature
Language
German
Time
1852 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Marx, Karl. "Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]." Die Revolution [The Revolution], 1852.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." The Political Writings, edited by David Fernbach. Verso, 2019.