Believer Quote by William Arnot

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

— Thomas Browne

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death is an eternal sleep.

— Joseph Fouche

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep

— Nazr Mohammed

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust…

— Thomas Browne

Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life,…

— J. M. E. McTaggart

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

— Ovid

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— John Milton

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

— Sir Walter Scott