“The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”
Source: The War of Art (2002), p. 50
“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
Source: The Odyssey
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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!"”
Maximilien Robespierre
(1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
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)
“Death's own brother Sleep.”
Consanguineus Leti Sopor.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 278 (tr. Fairclough)