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Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. — Guy Sajer

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

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

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

Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from. — Steven Magee

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

O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life — Percy Bysshe Shelley

My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices. — Frederic Chopin

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death. — Walter Reisch

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

Take sleep mark death. — Glen L. Richards

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

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life. — Edwin Arnold

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

Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka

Aside from the brief period after Victor's death, sleep — Nicholas Sparks

In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep. — Sophocles

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

She sleeps alone at last. — Robert Benchley

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep — Gloria E. Anzaldua

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

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please ... — Agatha Christie

Adam translated, Not death, but his brother, sleep. — Maggie Stiefvater

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. — Minot Judson Savage

All things come to an end, but when you open your eyes after a long sleep a new journey begins. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us. — Francesco Petrarca

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death. — Wasif Ali Wasif

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

Death is an eternal sleep. — Joseph Fouche

She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep. — Victor Hugo

Life without death has become as unthinkable to me as day without night or waking without sleep. — Frederick Buechner

For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death — Dean Cavanagh

The dead sleep soundly but do not dream. — Marty Rubin

Time and death sleep side by side. — Garth Nix

I am told that sleep is a rehearsal for death. It is waking that kills us. — Sally Gardner

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

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

Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake. — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Sleep is a little slice of death. — Scott Westerfeld

Death's brother, sleep. — Virgil

A death-like sleep,
A gentle wafting to immortal life. — John Milton

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

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet. — Saul Friedlander

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

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

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat. — Suzy Kassem

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. — Homer

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? — Colleen McCullough

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

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

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

Sleep: the stepchild of Death. — Nancy A. Collins

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

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. — Washington Irving

There is ample time to sleep; after death. — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. — Benjamin Franklin

Let there be sleep after death...Let me not be lonely for her. Let my desire be as ashes, my heart as a stone lost in a dark river. — Christine Monson

They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep." "Then — Robert E. Howard

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

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't. — Veronica Roth

Sleep is death without the responsibility. — Fran Lebowitz

Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. — Hugh Howey

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

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

Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not? — Oscar Wilde

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep. — Victoria Woodhull

Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. — George Washington

Saying of the Prophet
Sleep
Sleep is the brother of death. — Idries Shah

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

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

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

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. — Hesiod

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. — Samuel Johnson

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

Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them. — Edgar Allan Poe

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. — Heinrich Heine

In practice it is death that works so
seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

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

I'll sleep well tonight — Henry Ford

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death. — Arthur Schnitzler

If you love sleep, you'll really enjoy death. — Dov Davidoff

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. — Nicolas Chamfort

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose. — John Fletcher

The death of each days life — William Shakespeare

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity. — Emily Bronte

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