quotations about beds
If it's softer than ground and has a roof over it, I call it a bed.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Clash of Kings
I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Pulp
The sun has gone
To bed and so must I
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN & RICHARD RODGERS
"So Long, Farewell"
Take thou of me, sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light,
A rosy garland and a weary head.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Astrophel and Stella
For I've been born and I've been wed--
All of man's peril comes in bed.
C.H. WEBB
Dum Vivimus Vigilamus
We're good in bed. That used to seem like a big deal to me. But we're also good out of it, and now that seems like a bigger deal.
STEPHEN KING
It
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon
Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
Of blankets.
RUPERT BROOKE
The Great Lover
I lower myself onto the bed, sinking as a stone sinks, then slowly bring my legs up over the edge and lie back. Once my aching shoulders hit the mattress the ache turns sweet. Ah, the relief, the luxury of not having to bear my own weight.
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ
Fatigue Artist
Whose bed have your boots been under?
And whose heart did you steal I wonder?
This time did it feel like thunder, baby?
Whose bed have your boots been under?
SHANIA TWAIN
"Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?"
All I've got is a s-s-single bed
There ain't no room for your sweet head
Now ain't it a shame you missed the last train?
'Cause all I've got is a s-s-single bed
BANANARAMA
"S-s-s-single Bed"
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
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
You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
Trout Fishing in America
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Daddy built it out of pine two days before the wedding
They say the neighbors cheered and hollered till his face got red
And mama brought the feather pillows and some handmade bedding
And they spent their wedding night in that big four poster bed
That night they swore like that bed their love would last forever
And they'd ask no more of life than the simple things they had
So they planed there future as they laid close together
And later I was born there in that big four poster bed
BRENDA LEE
"Big Four Poster Bed"
If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.
MARCEL PROUST
Jean Santeuil
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Miscellanies
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
The delight of night-time when, having had to get up to go shiveringly to the icy lavatory in the tower, into which the air creeps through the ill-fitting window, we later return deliciously to our room, feeling a smile of happiness distend our lips, finding it hard not to jump for sheer joy at the thought of the big bed already warm with our warmth, of the still burning fire, the hot-water bottle, the coverlets and blankets which have imparted their heat to the bed into which we are about to slip, walled in, embattled, hiding ourselves to the chin as against enemies thundering at the gates, who will not (and the thought brings gaiety) get the better of us, since they do not even know where we have so snugly gone to earth, laughing at the wind which is roaring outside, climbing up all the chimneys to every floor of the great house, conducting a search on each landing, trying all the locks.
MARCEL PROUST
Jean Santeuil