Jean Rhys Quotes

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

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’.

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

It’s funny when you feel as if you don’t want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That’s when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

I wanted to be black. I always wanted to be black… Being black is warm and gay, being white is cold and sad.

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.