Best dies & sleep Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God.”

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.”

Knows Wanted Night Dies Sleep Sea Dying Baby Terrible Do You Know Pigs Shut Up One Night Never Sleep

Author:Yara

“When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves”

Death Dies Sleep Forget Personality Essence Lifetime Forget You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.”

Ifs Has Beens Stills Dream Lasts Night Dies Sleep Crosses Direct Performances Hunger Theatre Intense Witness Every Night Threshold Auditoriums

Author:Declan Donnellan

“Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.”

Art Lying Dies Sleep Common Security Wit Ease Buried Careless Sloth Moths

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”

Death Spirit Dies Sleep Sky Weak Sick Hardship Mortality Eagles Unwilling Steep Pinnacle Godlike

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.”

Doe Matter Dies Sleep Illusion Nothingness Does It Matter

Author:Mata Hari

“I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.”

Dies Sleep Dad Passengers

Author:Bob Monkhouse

“The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.”

Ifs Want Years Long Lasts Life Is Dies Sleep Walking Quiet Heavy Ashamed Telling The Truth Tonight What If Life Is Short Last Day Being Quiet

Author:Karrine Steffans

“It's just that the churches have been sleeping for a long time. A lot of people argue that the churches are even dead. I don't believe they're dead, but they've been sleeping, but they, I hope, will wake up, and that's one of my tasks is to make sure they wake up as much as they do before I die.”

People Believe Long Has Beens Dies Church Sleep Long Time Tasks Wake Up Don't Believe Arguing Before I Die

Author:Cornel West

“Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.”

Dies Sleep Son Holy

Book:The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis

Source: The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis

“Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.”

Giving Beautiful Dies Fall Sleep Forever Sky Land Flight Enchanted

Author:Jose Rizal

“The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”

Ifs Should Firsts Heart Littles Pain Suffering Dies Asks Sleep Pleasure Liberty Excuse Going To Sleep

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.”

Men Life Kind Life Is Dies Sleep Old Man

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”

“I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die.”

Dies Sleep Prepared Sexuality

Author:Ti-Grace Atkinson

“I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Trying Heart Littles Dies Sleep My Heart Constitution Rate Busy Heart Rate

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn - and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb.”

People World Way Humans May War Dies Turns Nations Sound Born Sleep Tears Human Life Flames Elsewhere Fury Merry Reborn Eruption Undertow

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."”

Way Bigs Lasts Dies Sleep Breaths Debt Curtains Slow Down Daisies Departed Deceased Peg Push Ups Herring Mutton Big Sleep Posies Patch Up

Author:Patch Adams

“Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.”

People Dies Sleep Going To Sleep

Author:Mark Twain

“It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.”

Might Happens Night Dies Sleep Courage Sea Trust Stranger Things Happen Beach Pneumonia

Author:Janet Reno

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