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Life Quotes by Jean Rhys
- Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
- I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
- The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
- 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…
- The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a…
- She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
- I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could…
- And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time,…
- I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.
- Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle