"Everything tender and melancholy - as life is……" — Jean Rhys

"Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment."

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89 Quotes by Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my…
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the…
I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under…
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

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More Life Quotes

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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… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can… — 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… — 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… — Aristotle

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