Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

— Lord Byron

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Theres a lot of men dead. So we can sleep in peace at night. When we lay down our head.

— Toby Keith

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

— Jules Verne

You know you're a mother when the smallest wimper from your child can wake you from a dead sleep.

— Linda Poindexter

The difference between the dead and the living, is the living dream while the dead sleep.

— Jason Brier

“I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Samuel Hoffenstein

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

— Max Brooks

One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead…

— Byron Katie

We will never sleep, 'cause sleep is for the weak And we will never rest, 'til we're all fucking dead We will never sleep,…

— Lindsey

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',…

— Ira Gershwin

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all,…

— Dag Hammarskjold