Boxes Quote by Dylan Thomas

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

— John Milton

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

— Homer

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

— Anonymous

“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A sleep so…

— Leïla Slimani

What is this mysterious thing, sleep, that you speak of? Please introduce me.

— Kaliana Dietrich

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

— Colleen McCullough

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

— John Banville

“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

— Walter Reisch

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

— Emily Bronte

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

— Daniel Keyes

“Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott