Constitution Quote by Benjamin Franklin

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

— John Donne

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of…

— Martin Luther

To awake from death is to die in peace.

— Douglas Horton

I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.

— Maria Theresa

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and…

— Anne Rice

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

— Petrarch

“May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.”

— Anthony Liccione

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

— Richard Matheson

“Might there come a time When we stand over a grave And mourn ourselves? Mourn the past, a previous life? Shall we weep for…

— Samantha Young

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful…

— Lyman Abbott

To be awake is to be alive.

— Henry David Thoreau