Bed Quote by William S. Burroughs

By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to…

— John Berendt

“she was so upset by the report of the murder that she retired to her kitchen and fell down in a fit. After briefly…

— Philip Sugden

When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had…

— Dan Wells

I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had…

— Wilson Rawls

She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

She sat alone, alone at home, where her screams were silent but her mind was violent, her insecurities hid deep inside and did indeed…

— Ana

She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an…

— Helen Hodgman

For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the…

— Jonathan Coe

“For an immeasurable period of time, hours, days, weeks, it seemed, Celia had been struggling against tides of anguish, sinking deeper and deeper into…

— Anna Kavan

Can't really tell on her outside,but in the inside its dark,Cold and all the depression it will eat her alive.Until she slowly dies..

— Jasmine

Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.

— James Aldrich

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul,…

— Joanne Greenberg