“Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening”
Sir Walter Scott
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.”
Harold Kushner
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep”
Lord Byron
“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all”
Heinrich Heine
“Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.”
Philip Dow
“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted”
Percy Bysshe Shelley