229 Quotes by Jean Rhys

"And I’ll look back at him because I shan’t be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I’ve ever loved, and every time I’ve been happy."

"May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity."

"But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day."

"Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies."

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

"Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes."

"Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie."

"One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things."

"The devil prince of this world, but this world don’t last so long for mortal man."

"Life if curious when reduced to its essentials"