"For the first time she had dimly realized……" — Jean Rhys
"For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery."
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89 Quotes by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys has 89 quotes on this site.
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Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my…
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...
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All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the…
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I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
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Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
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Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
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I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
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I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under…
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I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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More Bitter Quotes
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
— Francis Bacon
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Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
— Honore de Balzac
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I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally…
— Drew Barrymore
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
— Adele
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There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal…
— Allen Boyd
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People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just…
— Jo Brand
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
— Terry Brooks
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
— Julie Burchill
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