Death’s brother, Sleep.
– Virgil
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- Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says, “I am coming.” – Virgil
- We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. — Sir Thomas Browne
- My younger brother’s death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In ‘Fallen Angels’ I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic. – Walter Dean Myers
- “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.” – Edgar Allan Poe
- Sleep – Those little slices of death, how I loathe them. – Edgar Allen Poe
- I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. – Benjamin Franklin
- Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: And yet a third of Life is passed in sleep. – Lord Byron
- It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. – Dylan Thomas
- Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax. – Philip Dow
- A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you. – Proverb