Lay Me Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There…
— John Milton
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A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
— Eartha Kitt
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...
— Neil Peart
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More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began…
— Neil Peart
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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
— William Cowper
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Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll…
— David Allan Coe
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Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel…
— William Shakespeare
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray…
— Tonya Hurley
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Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".
— Leo Tolstoy
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Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all…
— Tom Waits
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Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A…
— Dalton Trumbo
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Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
— Elton John
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Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this…
— Gayle Forman
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Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for…
— Dalton Trumbo
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Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
— John Dryden
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Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay…
— Douglas Adams
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I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’†To me, just random…
— Rick Yancey
Who Wrote These Lay Me Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 29 Lay Me Quotes, led by these top contributors: