— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
„I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death“
— Nas
N.Y. State of Mind
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)
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„Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.“
— John Steinbeck, buch The Grapes of Wrath
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
„Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
The best of all were never to be born.“
— Heinrich Heine German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797 - 1856
— 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).
„Death is not "an eternal sleep!"“
— Maximilien Robespierre French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758 - 1794
Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"
Quelle: Last speech to the National Convention http://www.bartleby.com/268/7/24.html (26 July 1794)
„Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.“
— John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant
Act III, scene 6.
The Humorous Lieutenant (c. 1619; published 1647)
„Death's own brother Sleep.“
Consanguineus Leti Sopor.
— Virgil, Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 278 (tr. Fairclough)
„I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder.“
— D.H. Lawrence, buch Sons and Lovers
Quelle: Sons and Lovers (1913), Ch.11
„How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Königin Mab
Canto I
Queen Mab (1813)
— Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855
Quelle: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
— Homér, The Odyssey (Cowper)
XIII. 79–80 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Original: (el) Καὶ τῷ νήδυμος ὕπνος ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἔπιπτε,
νήγρετος ἥδιστος, θανάτῳ ἄγχιστα ἐοικώς.
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Workingman's Blues #2
„Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.“
— Hesiod Greek poet
Quelle: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 754.
„Time and death sleep side by side.“
— Garth Nix, buch Abhorsen
Variante: "Time and death sleep side by side," said the Dog. "Both are in Astrael's Domain."
Quelle: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 64.
„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.
„For little differs death and heavy sleep.“
— Torquato Tasso Italian poet 1544 - 1595
Dal sonno alla morte è un picciol varco.
Canto IX, stanza 18 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
„Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.“
— Edgar Allan Poe American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809 - 1849
Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, though there is no record of his having ever said it.
Misattributed
„Sleep those tiny slices of death how i despise them“
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791
— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784
The Rambler, No. 78 (Sat 15 Dec 1750). http://www.yalejohnson.com/frontend/sda_viewer?n=106855 See also The Yale Book of Quotations, Samuel Johnson 2 (2006)
