Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.
Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
