XIII. 79–80 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Καὶ τῷ νήδυμος ὕπνος ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἔπιπτε, νήγρετος ἥδιστος, θανάτῳ ἄγχιστα ἐοικώς.
“Sweet oblivion, sleep
dissolving all, the good and the bad, once it seals our eyes.”
XX. 85–86 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death”
N.Y. State of Mind
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)
“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians
“The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.”
Stanza 13.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)
Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
