„Lo, sleep is good, better is death–in soothThe best of all were never to be born.“

— Heinrich Heine

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„I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death“
— Nas
„Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Lo! Death has reared himself a throneIn a strange city lying aloneFar down within the dim West,Where the good and the bad and the worst and the bestHave gone to their eternal rest.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„Come lovely and soothing death,Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,In the day, in the night, to all, to each,Sooner or later, delicate death.“
— Walt Whitman
„It is good to be a cynic—it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world—we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death—the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.“
— Harper Lee
„You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.“
— Patricia Briggs