It was hard work being old. It was like being a baby, in reverse. Every day for an infant means some new little thing learned; every day for the old means some little thing lost. Names slip away, dates mean nothing, sequences become muddled, and faces blurred. Both infancy and age are tiring times.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

Her work failed her. She had reached a desperate, claustrophobic stage of being imprisoned halfway in a novel: there was too much behind her for her to retreat and not a glimmer of light ahead. She sat for hours without writing, staring at the last few wrods on the page, seeing no significance in them. Her characters fell into frozen poses, speech died on their lips: they had sat at a banquet for weeks and she had not the power to bring them to their feet again.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Men are not forced to turn their desolation to advantage as women are. It’s easier for them to dissipate their passion, quell their restlessness in other ways.

— Elizabeth Taylor

All that she saw and felt tired her, and she longed to shut out the world and be secure in the womb of her imagination.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Departure in the afternoon is depressing to those who are left. The day is so dominated by the one who has gone and, although only half-done, must be got through with that particular shadow lying over it.

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

She went on slowly and dreamily along the shore. Beautiful women do not need to hurry.

— Elizabeth Taylor

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 rain hit the windows like rice; the fire roared hollowly; the autumn afternoon discoloured into darkness.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Seeing one face continually in crowds is one of the minor annoyances of being in love.

— Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve been pronounced dead and I’ve read my own obituaries. And they were the best reviews I ever read.

— Elizabeth Taylor

She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.

— Elizabeth Taylor

She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Time went by. It could be proved that it did, although so little happened.

— Elizabeth Taylor

The day comes in slowly to those who are ill. The night has separated them from the sleepers, who return to them like strangers from a distant land, full of clumsy preparations for the living, the earth itself creaking towards the light.

— Elizabeth Taylor

If you hate it, if you find you have made a mistake, it will still have been a change. As with a holiday, if it ends in your wishing to come home, its aim is accomplished.

— Elizabeth Taylor

None wished to appear greedy, or obsessed by food; but food made the breaks in the day, and menus offered a little choosing, and satisfactions and disappointments, as once life had.

— Elizabeth Taylor

From somewhere–most certainly not from his mother–he had inherited a feeling that Sunday was a day of rest, and so he fretted through it, and always came to the end of it with a sense of wide ennui and wasted time.

— Elizabeth Taylor

The dead belonged to her as no one living could have done.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Oliver Davenant did not merely read books. He snuffed them up, took breaths of them into his lungs, filled his eyes with the sight of the print and his head with the sound of words.

— Elizabeth Taylor

People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere.

— Elizabeth Taylor-Wey
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