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I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside. — Anthony Liccione

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. — Francis Beaumont

I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. — Anita Roddick

I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death. — Mike Heil

And all they could do was sit, sleep, eat, and be reminded day after day, night after night, of their disease and eventual death. — Alan Brennert

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls? — William Blake

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle. — Leo Tolstoy

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness. — Lisa M. Klein

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. — Milan Kundera

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. — H. Rider Haggard

There's nothing terrible in death;
'Tis but to cast our robes away,
And sleep at night, without a breath
To break repose till dawn of day. — Robert Montgomery

I'll sleep long and hard when I'm dead. You defy death by celebrating life." It — Grace Draven

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — George Gordon Byron

Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers. — Homer

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself! — William Shakespeare

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. — William Osler

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die. — Ian McEwan

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God. — Michael Bassey Johnson

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven. — Anthony Liccione

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night. — George R R Martin

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother. — John Steinbeck

Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything. — Soren Kierkegaard

And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of spent flesh... but they say he no longer dreams. — C.M. Hayden

The great design of Jesus' descent into hell is to rouse
people out of their deep sleep, to deliver them from sin and death. — Tim Liwanag

The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time. — Nisargadatta Maharaj

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. — Mahatma Gandhi

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening. — Walter Scott

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
On death — John Keats

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. — Alexander Pope

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton. — Thomas Traherne

Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box. — Dylan Thomas

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven. — Charles Caleb Colton

Every night I go to sleep with the hope to wake up next morning. How do I call it? Trust maybe? — Manasa Rao

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever. — Anne Rice

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death — Homer

We need rest from the inexhaustible, from the mind. There is sleep-and meditation-and death. — Marty Rubin

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light;
And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night. — Abraham Cowley

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing 'Sleep sweet sleep'. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack — Kim Cormack

Jesus, you've got a death wish."
"Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid. — Lilith Saintcrow

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep — Nazr Mohammed

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress. — Mac Miller

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe. — Emily Bronte

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life. — Thomas Browne

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. — Jean Paul

They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related ...
Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated. — Jayceon Terrell Taylor

Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
And luckier may you find the night
Than ever you found the day. — A.E. Housman

When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep. — William Arnot

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening — Zhuangzi

Thy best of rest is sleep,
And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st
Thy death, which is no more. — William Shakespeare

To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come ... — William Shakespeare

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. — Dee Remy

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats. — Ray Bradbury

Time and death sleep side by side. — Garth Nix

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. — E. M. Forster

Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. — Suzy Kassem

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared;
Therefore his house is unto his annext:
Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext. — Edmund Spenser

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill — John Donne

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. — Thomas Browne