Andres Segovia Quotes

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

I can rest when I'm dead.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

For the dead there are no more toils.

Death is the most blessed dream.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

I have miles to go before I sleep.