Afterlife Quote by Heather Heffner

“And my dad, who was somehow still dead, did what he sometimes did―died again, seconds after my waking.”

— Jeannie Vanasco

“Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. The cryopods and this hopping through the…

— Hugh Howey

“Father Earth thinks in ages, but he never, ever sleeps. Nor does he forget.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“And yet when I went to sleep, it was like I became part of some larger human experience that was utterly heartbreaking. It was…

— Sebastian Junger

“I escape into sleep. Sleep is what I’ll miss most when I die.”

— Clare Cavanagh

“My father used to say there's a fine line between death and sleep, and that both are ways to escape an unendurable pain. But…

— Axie Oh

“ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN while the dead slept.”

— DiAnn Mills

“Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from.”

— Steven Magee

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long…

— William Faulkner

“They didn't know being dead is only being asleep, and you're bound to wake up somewhere or other, either where you go to sleep…

— E. Nesbit

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer

“He must have read that sleep is death’s little brother.”

— Petra Hammesfahr