Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, CBE, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1894
beautiful real hunger
The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.
world holy-rosary ends
As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
sides
There is always the other side, always.
struggle views humans
Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.
earth sometimes breathe
Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.
eagles wings broken
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad...
dream tired eye
that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.
writing people has-beens
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
stars dark moon
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.
lasts knows
Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.
thinking afternoon strange
It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
want lovers
She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
believe too-late doe
I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).
sacrifice laughing able
Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary...