Best eternal & sleep Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?”

Ifs Should Matter Sleep Grief Eternal Bitter

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.”

May Sleep Tears Eternal Thee

Author:Charles Wesley

“The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.”

Night Found Sleep White Tree Dog Sorrow Eternal Garden Dawn Apples Mexico Wire All Night Fowl Moaning Drumming Telegraph Apple Trees Never Sleep Pariahs

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"”

Hands Sleep Support Citizens Eternal Spread Innocence Immortality Oppressed Motto Tombs Commencement Sacrilegious

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]”

Giving Death Sleep Fate Fool Eternal

Author:Ovid

“God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year; And O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings, and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother, And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

“Death is an eternal sleep.”

Sleep Eternal

Author:Joseph Fouche

“But anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping, as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have shown us.”

Believe Has Beens War Sleep Issues Havens Eternal Europe Errors Demon Bosnia Kosovo

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.”

World Nations Church Sleep Eternal Lips Destroyed Temples Civilized Superstitions Eternal Life Apostles Awakened

Author:John Strachan

“Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom; you will have everything.”

Helping Sound Natural Wealth Sleep Materials Comfort Eternal Medicine Hearing Supreme Bliss Electric Pillow Ornaments Sound Sleep

Author:Sivananda

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

“And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death”

Ifs Dream Night Sleep Half Eternal Awake Waking Eternal Life Waking Life Half Days

Book:Life Is A Dream

Source: Life Is A Dream

“Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.”

Sleep Doors Eternal Bird Dawn Shore Host Stillness Tranquil Evermore Peeping

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.”

“Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.”

Light Night Stars Sound Water Sleep Sun Eternal Sight Sound Of Water

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.”

Littles Dream Night Sleep Eternal Drag Whispering

Book:A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

“I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible... The quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul... The West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.”

“He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”

Inspirational Giving Death Sleep Dying Youth Eternal Immortality Eternal Youth

Author:Jean Paul

“It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again. To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.”

Thinking Knows Wells Ideas Dream Might Pain Religion Order Wish Sleep Crime Judging Demand Eternal Sick Slave Horrible Being True Torture Waking Our Thoughts Our Dreams Convicts

Author:Christopher Hitchens

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