Famous Jean Rhys Quotes

  • I want more of this feeling – fire and wings. – Jean Rhys

    I want more of this feeling – fire and wings.– Jean Rhys

  • When trouble comes, close ranks – Jean Rhys

    When trouble comes, close ranks– Jean Rhys

  • What I see is nothing – I want what it hides – that is not nothing. – Jean Rhys

    What I see is nothing – I want what it hides – that is not nothing.– Jean Rhys

  • And then the days came when I was alone. – Jean Rhys

    And then the days came when I was alone.– Jean Rhys

  • Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand….How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss…. – Jean Rhys

    Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand….How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss….– Jean Rhys

  • Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only – to be left alone. – Jean Rhys

    Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only – to be left alone.– Jean Rhys

  • The devil prince of this world, but this world don’t last so long for mortal man. – Jean Rhys

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

  • She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. – Jean Rhys

    She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.– Jean Rhys

  • I thought if I told no one it might not be true. – Jean Rhys

    I thought if I told no one it might not be true.– Jean Rhys

  • Anything you like; anything I like… No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us – Jean Rhys

    Anything you like; anything I like… No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us– Jean Rhys