Sleep Quotes

“Good. I don’t like people.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“Those who have a mother, treasure her with care, for you never know how much you love her until she is not there.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“What would it be like, he wondered, to be a dog; to find joy in base behaviours – food, play, affection – and not overload your brain thinking about the future, death, the nature of an infinite universe, global warming, war and disease.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“Sleep.
We crave it, that blissful darkness that rocks us in its arms and carries us away from our cares and our worries. Life is struggle but sleep is an escape. It is the womb to which we return when our limbs are heavy and our minds are tired. Sometimes we fight it. We struggle to remain awake. Our guilt, or misplaced loyalty, keep us rooted to this coil, too afraid to move on to the next.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“It’s bullshit, women being the weaker sex. Who looks after us if we have enough of being strong? Huh? Tell me that! Who looks after us?”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“God saw the road was getting rough The hill too hard to climb He gently closed her weary eyes and whispered ‘Peace be thine’ I liked my mum best when she was asleep.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“Anna,’ her face softens, ‘you had a hell of a day yesterday with … with what happened to David. We want you to take it easy today. I know you’re in charge and we’re the guests but we’re all human. You need time to grieve. And sleep.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“He has to lie there and take it because, apparently, he’s supposed to be grateful that he’s alive. Grateful? Another tear escapes and winds its way into his hairline. He’s going to be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He’s never going to walk or run or cycle or ski ever again.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“Guilt is such a furtive emotion. It lurks in the shadows of the mind, waiting for the chance to steal the limelight from happiness, contentment and peace, growing ever more powerful until it pushes them completely offstage.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“I thought, by coming here, that I’d leave what happened behind. But grief can’t be cast off like a jacket. It becomes part of you, an invisible film welded to your skin. Some days you feel it, some days you don’t, but it’s always there.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“As he’d walked to the tube afterwards he couldn’t help but feel relieved that Anna was no longer his responsibility. And guilty for feeling that way.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“He’s thought about her, obviously; you don’t spend nearly two years with someone and then forget all about them the moment they walk out of the door,”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“air. There are days at work when I feel I can’t breathe, and not just because of the pollution. The air’s thinner at the top of the”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“If cancer were a person he’d have beaten the shit out of it and smashed its face to a pulp.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep

“No. It doesn't hurt there. It hurts here, in here, inside my head.”
― C.L. Taylor, Sleep