Born Quote by Heinrich Heine

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

— Heinrich Heine

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

— Heinrich Heine

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

— Iris Murdoch

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

— Nas

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

— Kevin Moffett

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

— Matthew Walker

Better to die than live in sleep.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

I never sleep because sleep is the cousin of death.

— Nas

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

— Alan Watts

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

— George Santayana

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

— Edwin Arnold