Bed Quotes - Page 37

• Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sleep, Alcohol, Trying

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• They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Memories, Tangled, Bird

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Say Anything, Would Be

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.93, Hamilton Books

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• Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

  A. E. Housman

  Mother, Lying, Son

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

  Markus Zusak

  Husband, Moving, Keys

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• Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

  Donna Tartt

  Girl, Boys, Hair

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• I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Years, Yards

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• No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

  Florence King

  Sex, Matter, Streets

  Florence King (1990). “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady”, p.2, Macmillan

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• From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

  Robert Southey

  Devil, Looks, Gone

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1860). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.77

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• April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It's raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig for him who frets!- It is not raining rain to me, It's raining violets.

  Robert Loveman

  Rain, Flower, Clouds

  Robert Loveman, “April Rain”

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• Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

  Robert Burns

  Victory, Battle, Welcome

  'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' (1799) (also known as 'Scots, Wha Hae')

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• The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wall, Night, Doors

  Oliver Goldsmith (1805). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Etc”, p.32

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• Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Morning, Moving

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 1

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• Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

  John Donne

  Love, Lying, Physicians

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

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• What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

  John Donne

  Marriage, Sight, Tickling

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.320, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

  Grant Morrison

  Time, Hurt, Lying

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• Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

  Chief Seattle

  Night, Waste, One Night

  Seattle (Chief), Johhny Mohawk (1984*). “Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"”

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• Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Waiting, Listening, Dying

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• I don't care about the fact that a dogs place is not in a bed - the closer they are to me, the more beautiful it is.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Beautiful, Dog, Care

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• I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Great Love, Would Be

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.

  Sir Harry Lauder

  Nice, Lying, Get Up

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• Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon. Gideon threw a scone at him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Eye, Gideon

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Lying, Angel, Snow

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.61

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• I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

  A. A. Gill

  Funny, Beach, Lying

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• Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Inspire, Wake Up

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

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