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Quotes About Bed

In the weeks since a mysterious fatigue had confined him to his bed, Gregory and Dennis had perfected the art of conversing between rooms.
~ Jennifer Egan
And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' - 'Joy of Life
~ Émile Zola
Yes you had the reason of going to bed with a proud heart and an empty stomach,' said I. 'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves
~ Emily Bronte
AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise' yellow noise Interrupt this ground.
~ Emily Dickinson
When Jack just rescued her Ma's, just succeeded doing the Great Escape: Want to go to Bed. They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while. No. Bed . You mean in Room? Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes. Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
~ Emma Donoghue
Want to go to Bed. They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while. No. Bed. You mean in Room? Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes. Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
~ Emma Donoghue
pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down.
~ Emma Donoghue
When she pulled the ribbon out of her mattress, at first light the next morning, it was brown.
~ Emma Donoghue
Livvy and Tony are in bed eating Chinese food.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
The next thing I knew, I was falling. I dreamed I was being thrown into an open grave, but jerked awake and landed on a bed.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I love to go to sleep, when bed takes me like a lover
~ Erica Jong
El hombre se pasa la vida en dos sitios solamente: en su cama y en sus zapatos.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
One bag contained the Confederate flag and a pouch filled with Virginia soil. Georgiana intended to give birth with the flag draped symbolically above the bed and the soil placed underneath to ensure that the baby was a true Virginian.)
~ Amanda Foreman
On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep's mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach, her arms bent as if she were swimming to the edge of a lake; his mother lay on her back, her feet (one of which had a scar on it) arranged in the joyous pose of a dancer.
~ Amit Chaudhuri
The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured narrowness, an austere frame made to contain the curves of a single body, to circumscribe it, carry it, give it a place, and when I slept at night, I possessed it entirely.
~ Amit Chaudhuri
und sie hört, wie er sich in sein Doppelbett legt, auf seine Seite, da er nicht auf Helens Seite schlafen kann, wo er heimlich drei ihrer bestickten Kissen arrangiert hat und sich zum Schlafen ihnen zuwendet, ein Arm um das mittlere Kissen gelegt, den anderen unter dem Kopf, wobei seine Hand wie zum Schutz auf seiner Stirn ruht.
~ Amy Bloom
I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.
~ Amy Hempel
Excellent. We keep your furniture. Whose bed?" "Yours." "Why mine?" "It's bigger, for one." "And for another?" "Mine doesn't have the sort of headboard you can tie someone to. I've always sort of wanted to do that." "Bend over. Now. Take off your pants and bend over. I'll be done in five minutes. No one will ever know.
~ Amy Lane
Kaden gave another one of those unexpected barks of humor. "Yeah. And I'm telling you, my sister is a shameless, shameless woman, and she swears by the guy in bed. If you ever feel like taking that stick out of your ass, you may want to rethink your stand on him. I understand he's like a religious experience.
~ Amy Lane
Five guys?" Medina asked, horrified. "Where'd they all fit?" Cotton shrugged. "Well, we all worked in porn, so sometimes up each other's asses. But once you quit the business, you pay extra rent for that single bed, you know?
~ Amy Lane
The term manger is not just a bed of straw; it is a feeding trough.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
La poésie se fait dans un lit comme l'amour Ses draps défaits sont l'aurore des choses (English) Poetry is made in bed like love Its unmade sheets are the dawn of things
~ Andre Breton
The presence of a bed changes the way people interact.
~ Lynn Nottage
Saturday mornings, or at night when I'm trying to go to bed, I'll watch Hitchcock mysteries and stuff. I know that's pretty boring, but it feels comfortable. It's called 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'
~ Tim Robinson