Jean Rhys Quotes

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

You are forever alone.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

It's lonely up here.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

I spent my whole childhood trying to find places to be on my own. I used to sit on the water tank in the attic or in the dog's kennel. I was quite a strange child.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!