What did Jean Rhys mean by: I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room. Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica Copy
+ The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rhys, Isolation, Monotony, Reflection, 0 Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
+ Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest’s a lie. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rhys, Dream, Magic, Truth, 0 Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
+ There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rhys, Mortality, Perception, Secrecy, 0 Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
+ There is always the other side, always. Author, July 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Jean Rhys, Certainty, Duality, Perspective, 0 Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
+ It is strange how sad it can be – sunlight in the afternoon, don’t you think? Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rhys, Beauty, Nature, Sadness, 0 Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
+ If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rhys, Falsehood, Hell, Magic, 0 Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
+ They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rhys, Conflict, Race, Unity, 0 Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
+ She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one. Author, August 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Jean Rhys, Consequences, Obsession, Regret, 0 Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Read explanation Frida Kahlo Painter · Mexico
All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing. Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician and physicist · France
