„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

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„O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mindTill it is hush’d and smooth!“
— John Keats
„I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.“
— Jack Kerouac
„O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)“
— William Shakespeare
„O dream on your black wingsyou come when I am sleeping.“
— Sappho
„i will wade outtill my thighs are steeped in burning flowersI will take the sun in my mouthand leap into the ripe airAlivewith closed eyesto dash against darknessin the sleeping curves of my body“
— E.E. Cummings
„How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.“
— Franz Kafka
„My spirit is too weak — mortalityWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep“
— John Keats
„This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.Night, sleep, and the stars.“
— Walt Whitman