Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

The moment is supreme.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Our castle is not imposing but is well built and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiffs house.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

I want you for always days years eternities.

I want you for always...days, years, eternities.

I want you for always, days, years, eternities.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

Never get out of bed before noon.