„Please don’t wake me, no, don’t shake me, leave me where I am, I’m only sleeping…“

— John Lennon

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„Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,While pain and guilt still linger here below,Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.“
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
„I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.“
— Sylvia Plath
„Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.“
— Alexander the Great