Death Sleep Quotes

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

Death is an eternal sleep.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.