“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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Callimachus 9
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“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)
“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“I may,
if I can,
sleep; since I must,
die.
Some say,
rise.”
"The Monosyllable" lines 15–20, The Chinese Insomniacs: New Poems, 1981, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0812278186
“They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“There the sons of obscure Night hold their habitation, Sleep and Death, dread gods.”
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 758.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Section 12
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”