Bed Quote by John Donne

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

— Joseph Addison

“Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain? Tell me, have you these in…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings…

— Mary Shelley

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and…

— Ishmael

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore…

— Francois Fenelon

Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

— William Cowper

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a…

— Moliere

“But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed. Your house shall be not an anchor but…

— Kahlil Gibran

Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely…

— Jonathan Franzen

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these…

— John Milton

“So far, in the room itself there had not been a sound. When the clock had struck ten, as it seemed to me, years…

— Richard Marsh