Bed Quote by George Arnold

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as…

— Isaac Bickerstaffe

“For a long while- for many years, in fact- he had not thought of how it was before he came to the farm. His…

— Truman Capote

“I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear,— Till…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of…

— Emile Zola

“He was the last leaf in a forest fallen to winter. He was the last soul in a graveyard of silence. He was the…

— Daniel Arenson

“Old Men’s Souls Within their ancient, decrepit bodies the souls of old men wallow. Poor things, so full of sorrow: how bored with the…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the…

— Haruki Murakami

“His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as…

— Anonymous

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

— Charles Dickens

“Only a sentimental being would care about such everyday things—things used and discarded by the humans of their respective eras without thought, yet kept…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“While he lived on and on, freezing and thawing, these mortals went through routines, lived and died, unaware that he even existed. ‘It’s”

— Hugh Howey

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin