Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“We are told not to leave food on the table overnight: it draws the dead.”

— Anita Barrows

“Sonnets to write before I sleep.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Death is like bedtime—we all want to put it off until tomorrow. But when you’re going to bed, I’m just getting up, Lazarus style.”

— Jarod Kintz

“And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and…

— Lili St. Crow

“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“You may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened when you are caught napping; and you may think that if you were to strike me…

— Plato

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

— Homer

“Leave the lights on: you can sleep when you're dead...you can't read when you're dead.”

— Michael Link

“Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Humans are asleep; at their death they awaken.”

— Prophet Muhammad

“Sleep erases all differences: then and now; dead and living. I am past hunger, past vanity, past caring. This morning I caught sight of…

— Audrey Niffenegger