Home / Quotes / Quote by Jean Rhys

Quote by Jean Rhys

“There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.”

Quote by Jean Rhys

Book:The Collected Short Stories

Work

The Collected Short Stories

This book features a diverse array of short stories, showcasing the talents of numerous writers across different genres and styles. more

Author

Jean Rhys, a British novelist born on August 24, 1890, in the Dominican Republic, and died on May 14, 1979. Her works are known for their profound psychological descriptions and exploration of the female condition, with notable titles such as 'Wide Sargasso Sea'. more

You May Also Like

“before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.”

Persons Book Heard Strange Baby Strange Things

Book:Smile Please

Source: Smile Please

“very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.”

People Wells Looks Different Courses Bits Change Seven Seventeen

Book:The letters of Jean Rhys

Source: The letters of Jean Rhys

“The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.”

Ifs Courses Virtue Humility Humble Be Humble

Author:Jean Rhys

“Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.”

Wells Terrible Down And Awful Mud Terrible Things Bleeding Muddy Rasputin

Author:Jean Rhys

“I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part of human nature. Parties are battles (most parties), a conversation is a duel (often). Everybody's trying to hurt first, to get in the dig that will make him or her feel superior, feel triumph.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Firsts Humans Might Desire Hurt Party Dangerous Human Nature Battle Conversation Superiors Triumph Unkindness

Book:The letters of Jean Rhys

Source: The letters of Jean Rhys

“I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.”

People Way Long Hurt Extraordinary Ridiculous Accusing Unkindness Vindictive Sulky

Book:Tales of the wide Caribbean

Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean

“Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.”

Author:Jean Rhys

“Near a war is always not very near.”

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Too few is as many as too many.”

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“You have to learn to do everything, even to die.”

Dies Dying Death And Dying

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen