“Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.”
Epigram 10; translation from The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (1856), edited by J. Banks , p. 194
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“Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.”
John Fletcher The Humorous Lieutenant
Act III, scene 6.
The Humorous Lieutenant (c. 1619; published 1647)
“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
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“I may,
if I can,
sleep; since I must,
die.
Some say,
rise.”
Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003) American-Canadian poet
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“They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“There the sons of obscure Night hold their habitation, Sleep and Death, dread gods.”
Hesiod Greek poet
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 758.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher