The Sleeping Beauty Quotes

“One is left so much on one’s own. People are shy of the bereaved. They don’t quite know what to be.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“People are different in different places,' he thought hazily. 'And if they're all right in one place, it's best to leave them there.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“She felt locked away in herself, but ignorant of her identity, and often she awoke suddenly in the night, without any idea of who she was; thinking, firstly, that she had died.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“My plans for today are to hang about hoping for a glimpse of her, to have my heart eaten away by the thought of her; to feel my blood bounding maddeningly, ridiculously, like a young boy's; to despair; to realise the weight of my misery and hunger with each step I take.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“People are different in different places,’ he thought hazily. ‘And if they’re all right in one place, it’s best to leave them there.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“Nearing fifty, Vinny felt more than ever the sweet disappointments only a romantic knows, whose very desires invite frustration; who loves twilight rather than midday, the echo more than the voice, the moon more than the sun, and women better than men;”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“She went on slowly and dreamily along the shore. Beautiful women do not need to hurry.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“Do you recall a shepherd’s crook, Laurence? And Gladstone-bag? We may be Liberals, but I didn’t know we had a Gladstone-bag.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“She suddenly felt that she did not know her own son – a sensation common enough to most mothers, but new to her.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“She could not go on a bus without having an adventure, usually brought about by not minding her own business, and there was always some curious incident to relate to Vinny when he returned home in the evening.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“The most bitter thing for a child is to see in another just the kind of son his mother deserved,”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“They met middle-age together-a time when women are necessary to one another-and all the petty but grievous insults of greying hair, crowsfeet, and the loathed encumbrances of unwanted flesh, seemed less sordid when faced and fought (though fought spasmodically and with weak wills) gaily together.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“Past and future to him were the realities; the present dull, meaningless, only significant if, as now, going back along the sands, he could say to himself: 'Later on, I shall remember.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“What I detest is the way our breasts go out sideways when we get older. They look as if they’re tired of one another’s company.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“He disdained to learn from so drab a teacher as Experience.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“He told himself that it would soon be over: then he saw that tomorrow loomed, too, and – such was his mood – all the days of his life.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“I cannot think why you love me,' he said, as all lovers say; but with more anxiety in his voice than is usual. 'Oh, I am nothing without you,' she said. 'I should not know what to be. I feel as if you had invented me. I watch you inventing me, week after week”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty