Quote by Fleur Adcock

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there…

— Fleur Adcock

“the disappointment that sleeps at the foot of your bed”

— Emily Curtis

“Night is the worst time, when her vitality sinks to its lowest ebb and she's frightened of everything. Unable to read or do anything…

— Anna Kavan

“I know you are reading this poem in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where the bedclothes lie in…

— Adrienne Rich

“I lie on my bed and slip into a troubled, bereft sleep full of falling women and the barking of dogs always out of…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid.…

— Diane Setterfield

“But the worst was that as time wore on, I became more and more afraid of myself, or perhaps more conscious of the fear…

— Siri Hustvedt

“My bed is massive (I drown in it, and it doesn’t matter how big the bed is, my nightmares more than fill it)”

— Kiersten White

“I go to bed with horror on my wings. In my pillow is sad comforts. Like my mother says, 'On essaye a s'y prendre,…

— Jack Kerouac

“In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?”

— Robert Harris