„Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.“
— John Steinbeck, buch The Grapes of Wrath
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
„Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.“
— Hesiod
Quelle: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 754.
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„Death's own brother Sleep.“
Consanguineus Leti Sopor.
— Virgil, Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 278 (tr. Fairclough)
„How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Königin Mab
Canto I
Queen Mab (1813)
„There she encountered Sleep, the brother of Death.“
— Homér, Ilias
XIV. 231 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Original: (el) Ἔνθ' Ὕπνῳ ξύμβλητο κασιγνήτῳ Θανάτοιο.
„There the sons of obscure Night hold their habitation, Sleep and Death, dread gods.“
— Hesiod Greek poet
Original: (el) Ἔνθα δὲ Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἐρεμνῆς οἰκί᾽ ἔχουσιν,
Ὕπνος καὶ Θάνατος, δεινοὶ θεοί
Quelle: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 758.
— Samuel Daniel Poet and historian 1562 - 1619
Delia http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/delia45.htm (1592), Sonnet XLV.
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Workingman's Blues #2
— Langdon Smith, Evolution
Evolution (1895; 1909)
Kontext: Yet happy we lived and happy we loved,
And happy we died once more;
Our forms were rolled in the clinging mold
Of a Neocomian shore.
The eons came and the eons fled
And the sleep that wrapped us fast
Was riven away in a newer day
And the night of death was past.
— Hafez al-Assad former president of Syria 1930 - 2000
[Robert Fisk: Freedom, democracy and human rights in Syria, Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT, 16 September 2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-freedom-democracy-and-human-rights-in-syria-2080463.html]
„Do you have any trouble sleeping at night? [Reply] No, sir. I sleep very well.“
— Eddie Mair Scottish broadcaster 1965
Question to the Sudanese ambassador concerning the government's complicit stance towards Janjaweed atrocities in Darfur[citation needed]
From PM and Broadcasting House
— Homér, Ilias
XVI. 671–673 (tr. R. Lattimore). Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, VI.278.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Original: (el) Πέμπε δέ μιν πομποῖσιν ἅμα κραιπνοῖσι φέρεσθαι
ὕπνῳ καὶ θανάτῳ διδυμάοσιν, οἵ ῥά μιν ὦκα
θήσουσ' ἐν Λυκίης εὐρείης πίονι δήμῳ.
— William Blake, A Cradle Song
A Cradle Song, st. 1
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 197
„I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death“
— Nas American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur 1973
N.Y. State of Mind
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)
— James Thomson (B.V.) Scottish writer (1834-1882) 1834 - 1882
Part I
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
— Joseph Fouché French statesman 1759 - 1820
Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
