Exile Quote by Ariel Dorfman

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private…

— Douglas Adams

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

— Guy de Maupassant

“It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never…

— Victor Hugo

“Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“And then I thought: 'It's for a warning,'" she continues. "You may think a bed is a peaceful thing, sir. For you it may…

— Margaret Atwood

“Some nights the bed is endlessly wide, some nights it contains all the loneliness in the world. Some nights it is soft and promising,…

— Mons Kallentoft

For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed,…

— Frank McCourt

“In living this way, we discover new opportunities for comfort and enjoyment. Where the younger person may have tossed and turned throughout a sleepless…

— Irving Singer

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

— Nelson Rodrigues

“The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious…

— Keith Donohue

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

— Richard P. Feynman

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this…

— John Donne