„My spirit is too weak — mortalityWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep“

— John Keats

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„Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.“
— Alexander the Great
„O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?“
— William Shakespeare
„Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!“
— Rick Riordan
„My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness.It took me years to understandthat this, too, was a gift.“
— Mary Oliver
„Lay your sleeping head, my loveHuman on my faithless arm;Time and fevers burn awayIndividual beauty fromThoughtful children, and the graveProves the child ephemeral;But in my arms till break of dayLet the living creature lie:Mortal, guilty, but to meThe entirely beautiful.“
— W. H. Auden
„Mortality, behold, and fear,What a change of flesh is here!Think how many royal bonesSleep within this heap of stones“
— Cassandra Clare
„Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty.“
— P. C. Cast
„20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.“
— Ramana Maharshi
„Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fightingThat would not let me sleep.“
— William Shakespeare