Awakening Quote by Lyman Abbott

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

— Petrarch

Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life.

— Blaise Pascal

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life is a dream of which death wakes us up.

— Anonymous

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

— John Keats

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.

— Leslie Weatherhead

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

— John Milton

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

— James Russell Lowell

“Death is not like going to sleep, it's more like waking up from a dream and realizing the person you were in the dream…

— Emmanuel Diogu

Death is gentle - death is bliss; as soft and delicate as a kiss. There's no mythical monsters when you go; none above and…

— Steve Fowler

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

— Hosea Ballou