The quote "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death" is famous quote attributed to Nas (1973), American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur.
N.Y. State of Mind
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“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!"
Source: Last speech to the National Convention http://www.bartleby.com/268/7/24.html (26 July 1794)
“Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
The best of all were never to be born.”
“Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.”
Act III, scene 6.
The Humorous Lieutenant (c. 1619; published 1647)
“Death's own brother Sleep.”
Consanguineus Leti Sopor.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 278 (tr. Fairclough)
