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Quotes About Bed

When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed
~ Jewish proverb
Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed?
~ Jill Mansell
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.
~ Jo Nesbo
There was a picture over the bed, a framed sampler in red and blue cross-stitch, with the words Hold fast that which is Good embroidered over a blue anchor. Anna looked at this with mistrust. It was the word "good". Not that she herself was particularly naughty, in fact her school reports quite often gave her a "Good" for Conduct, but in some odd way the word seemed to leave her outside. She didn't feel good…
~ Joan G. Robinson
La buena reputación es conveniente dejarla caer a los pies de la cama hoy tienes una ocasión de demostrar que eres una mujer además de una dama.
~ Joaquín Sabina
Yo le quería decir que el azar se parece al deseo que un beso es sólo un asalto y la cama es un ring de boxeo, que las caricias que mojan la piel y la sangre amotinan se marchitan cuando las toca la sucia rutina.
~ Joaquín Sabina
These boots are worth more than you, damn it!' Shadikshirram was sitting on her bed, eyes shining wet, straining forward and trying to grab her foot but so drunk she kept missing. When she saw him she sagged back. 'Give me a hand, eh?' 'As long as you don't need two,' said Yarvi. She gurgled with laughter. 'You're a clever little crippled bastard, aren't you? I swear the gods sent you. Sent you . . . to get my boots off.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Later that night, Sylvie sat in bed with a book open in her lap. She was too sleepy to read, but the proximity of the book was comforting. Telling
~ Ann Napolitano
Mana dz?ve ir k? š? gu?vieta, es v?l nodom?ju. Trausla. Nedroša. Pak?rta gais?.
~ Anna Gavalda
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
~ Anna Quindlen
She kicked me off the bed!
~ Anne Bishop
While he waited, he made up the bed,more to discourage Meg from falling back into it than because he wanted to tidy the room. Besides, running his hands over the sheets and breathing in her scent made him happy
~ Anne Bishop
But during the day... that was life. The collection of small details that made up a shared day were what gave richness to what happened in the bed at night.
~ Anne Bishop
The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.
~ Anne Sexton
All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling. And I, in my bed each night, listen to my twenty shoes converse about it. And the moon, under its dark hood, falls out of the sky each night, with its hungry red mouth to suck at my scars.
~ Anne Sexton
The bed itself is an operating table where my dreams slice me to pieces.
~ Anne Sexton
This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a strange and sudden force, and she had an overwhelming urge to turn back, get into bed and not go out for about three weeks. She stopped in her tracks. The feeling itself was alarming to Charlotte - was she sensing something? Something dangerous? And was it something supernatural or just middle school? Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference.
~ Anne Ursu
Western wind, when will thou blow, The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!
~ Anonymous
Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I didn't grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed.
~ Ruby Dee
She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares.
~ Euripides
Soon someone would say the fatal words, Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Sebastian's life was governed by a code of such imperatives. 'I must have pillar-box red pyjamas,' 'I have to stay in bed until the sun works round the windows,' 'I've absolutely got to drink champagne tonight.
~ Evelyn Waugh
and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sleep - real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby. So deep and warm the bed and the pillow enfolding me, letting me sink into peace, nothingness - my dreams now, after the catharsis of the dark hours, are of young and lovely people doing young, lovely things, the girls I knew once, with big brown eyes, real yellow hair.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald