quotations about beds
it's so hard to get out of bed
with you there
PHEN WESTON
Under the Rose
Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
JUVENAL
The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus
If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.
MARCEL PROUST
Jean Santeuil
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
ANGELA CARTER
"Speculative Finale", The Sadeian Woman
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
Gallegher
Nothing makes a bed more comfortable than the ringing of an alarm clock.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Bed is a medicine.
ITALIAN PROVERB
I like to do things in bed. I fold the laundry on the bed. Food tastes better to me when I'm under the covers. Bed is the only place to read, the best place to talk on the phone.
ELIZABETH BERG
Range of Motion
Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head
Down on our own delightful bed.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
Night
Ample make this Bed--
Make this Bed with Awe--
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it, completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind.
MARCEL PROUST
Pleasures and Regrets
I climbed into bed, wide awake and full of dreams.
REBECCA TIMBERLAKE
Bookish Hearts
Some dark Presence watching by my bed,
The awful image of a nameless dread
WILLIAM MARSHALL
The Far Away Man
Would you have a settled head,
You must early go to bed;
I tell you, and I tell 't again,
You must be in bed at ten.
NICHOLAS CULPEPER
Letters to Stella
What angel wakes me from my flow'ry bed?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Uneasy lies the head that eats crackers while in bed.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Twelfth Night
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.
STEFAN ZWEIG
The Burning Secret and Other Stories
I wonder if you still think about us,
the way I do.
How our legs would crash
into each other in the middle
of the night, and how we ended
up creating the moon in the
confines of our beds.
ZAEEMA J. HUSSAIN
The Sky Is Purple
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum