Jean Rhys Quotes (9 Quotes)

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. But after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

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 we were ... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.