Best Jean Rhys Quotes
- Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home. Armor
- A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is. All
- All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles,… All
- The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. Gradually
- Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed. Brain
- He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people. Allow
- ...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness. Attracted
- She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one. Action
- It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that… Breathe
- I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its… All
- It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong. Anything Seem
- Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. Able
- Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Ankles
- The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life. All
- A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened...… Alone
- ...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in. All
- Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.) Bet
- I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same,… All
- We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if… All
- And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did? Anyone
- You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful… All
- But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the… Afternoon
- But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful… All
- My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets… Affair
- I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale… Accepted