Ability Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

— J. M. Coetzee

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

— Anton Chekhov

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

— Louise Erdrich

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

— Sir Walter Scott

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of…

— Martin Luther

Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock,…

— Doris Lessing

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

— D. H. Lawrence

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if…

— Sylvia Earle

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

— Matthew Walker

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

— Walter Scott

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not…

— Samuel Johnson