"Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel……" — Jean Rhys

"Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe."

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

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I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to… — Donovan Bailey
I love hearing my audience breathe. — Adele
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They… — Nellie Bly
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a… — Erma Bombeck
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the… — Albert Camus
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. — Truman Capote
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through… — Jim Carrey
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll… — Julia Child
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not… — Kate Chopin

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