"If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu -……" — Jean Rhys
"If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me."
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Jean Rhys
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89 Quotes by Jean Rhys
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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 Adieu Quotes
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one of 37 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
— William Shenstone
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Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
— William Shakespeare
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
— Dale Evans
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of…
— Boris Pasternak
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad…
— Billy Joel
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Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry…
— Pierre-Jean de Beranger
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I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding…
— Marie Antoinette
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and…
— Adelaide Anne Procter
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu…
— Walter Scott
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Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime…
— Robert W. Service
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Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
— John Keats
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