"When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying."
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"I'm tired. I'm going back to bed."
"There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair."
"I'd have liked to have gone to bed with Jean Harlow. She was a beautiful broad. The fellow who married her was impotent and he killed himself. I would have done the same thing."
"Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers."
"Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture."
"You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it."
"Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean."
"Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?"
"A death-bed's a detector of the heart."
"One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable."
"I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America."
"Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words."
"God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!"
"… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything."
"My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating."
"Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade."
"No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God."
"Go to bed; tired is stupid."
"Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr."