229 Quotes by Jean Rhys

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.

As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

There is always the other side, always.

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

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

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

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.