Gates Quote by Edmund Spenser

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

— William Blake

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep

— Nazr Mohammed

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.

— William Shakespeare

“Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one…

— Socrates

“Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one…

— Plato

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis…

— Ovid

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

— George R. R. Martin

“Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of…

— Unknown Christian

Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Buried Woman // Die Begrabene In life we all pursued our aims. What held us up was lust and games. What drove us…

— Gertrud Kolmar

So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take, His chamber…

— Anonymous

“Death is the great leveler of mankind, which swallows up all distinctions which has taken place in life, puts both rulers and the ruled…

— Moses Mather