Quotes about bed
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“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed.”

E. Jean Carroll (1943) American journalist

Variant: If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

“Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?'

Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Lie, Sleep

“We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Star

“I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

World

“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Happiness, People, Feeling, Time

“Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

Loneliness

“I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed.

(My life. Hell’s bells.)”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Life, Hell, Time

“raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Dark Highlander

Coffee, Parting

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”

Tracy Chevalier (1962) American writer

Love, Books, Reading

“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian

Books

“A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

Boy

“Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.”

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

Lying, Housing

“Tell me, if I take you to my room and put you in my bed, what do you think would happen?"

"I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Thinking, Drawing

“I'll go sleep on the couch," James said. "No, you won't," Poppy said firmly. She flopped on the bed beside him. "You're dead tired. And I know I'm safe with you." James grinned without moving his arm. "Because I'm dead tired?”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Secret Vampire/Daughters of Darkness/Spellbinder

Sleep, Dead

“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Parting

“Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.”

Beatrix Potter book The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Source: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Tea

“But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Money, Truth

“Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Men, Dogs

“Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

Tea, Night

“She couldn’t very well let him join her in bed like that.
Sure you could.
No I can’t.
Please?
Hush, self, let me think.’ (Grace)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Thinking

“Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.”

Virginia Euwer Wolff book Make Lemonade

Source: Make Lemonade

People, Lie

“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

Money

“Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

People, Shoe

“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) French writer

Dreams

“… show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

People, Fight

“Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost.
"Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy…”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Boy, Kiss, Reading, Dance

“One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Wisdom

“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

Peace, Lying, Light, Learning

“I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.”

Diana Norman (1933–2011) British author and journalist

Source: The Serpent's Tale

God

“This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Home, Strong, Reading, Personality

“Well, what? Sophie-"
"I hit her on the head with a mirror," Sophie said hopelessly. "One of those silver-backed ones, so it was quite heavy. She went down just like a stone, miss. So I… I tied her to the bed and I came looking for you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“What is success?" poses the Copt. "It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Variant: What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Peace, Soul, Success, Night

“You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Light

“Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time.

What are we but our stories?”

James Patterson book Sam's Letters to Jennifer

Source: Sam's Letters to Jennifer

Sadness, Beauty, Feeling, Time

“With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth… But we as gardeners, must beware… for some seeds are the seeds of ruin… and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Idea, Science

“Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.”

Ridley Pearson (1953) American writer

Source: Disney at Dawn

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Night

“You're the reason I get out of bed every night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's… you.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

War, Home, Waiting, Night

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Variant: Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
Source: Factotum

Life, World, Sleep, Clothes

“i am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt, Selection, Passage, and Abridged.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

“I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater

and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: The Spice Box of Earth

Lovers, Kiss

“I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Accursed from their birth they be
Who seek to find monogamy,
Pursuing it from bed to bed—
I think they would be better dead.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: Sunset Gun: Poems

Birth, Thinking, Dead

“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory —
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Music, When Soft Voices Die http://www.readprint.com/work-1367/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821) <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poems

Love, Art, Music, Sense

“All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Source: House of Many Ways

“… and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Variant: You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
Source: Gone Girl

Life, Home, Drink, Thinking

“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

Love, Cry, Night

“But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire.”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

Kiss

“And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,
Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-
And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Mine the Harvest

Life, Pain

“Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Variant: But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
Source: The Complete Stories

Dreams, Thinking

“You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed."
I smirked and the tea almost came out of my nose. "He'd run like he was on fire.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Love, Way, Sleep, Tea