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To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...


William Shakespeare

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To die, to sleep --
To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,
For in that sleep of dea...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
T...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slin...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath;
Sleep, Deat...
ALFRED TENNYSON Our dream is parallel to the reality
Slumber's one platform for perpendicularity
But it al...
JOSHUA NATAD Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul...
SOPHOCLES Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more,
Macbeth does murder sleep the innocent sleep,
Sle...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must gi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Don't go to sleep doused in hatred.
Instead go to sleep snuggled in love.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.
CHRISTINA WESTOVER At Night

Love said, "Wake still and think of me,"
Sleep, "Close your eyes til...
SARA TEASDALE awake, then die
in the arms of a modified lover
sleep, then dream
in the absence o...
A.P. SWEET I donot sleep to rest, I sleep to dream.
AHMAD TALAL ASIF The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j...
F.K. PRESTON Now go to sleep. I'll wake you up when I want you."

"Should I just sleep with my legs spr...
DOMINIQUE FROST Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
And luckier may you find the ni...
A.E. HOUSMAN So what, then? Pete? Clyde?"
Cabel rolls over, pretending to sleep.
"It's Fred, isn't it?...
LISA MCMANN Insomnia

I cannot get to sleep tonight.
I toss and turn and flop.
I try to coun...
KATHY KENNEY-MARSHALL If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep
YIDDISH PROVERB Journey to the end of day,
Come the fire-fly,
Come the moon;
Say a prayer for God'...
CLIVE BARKER You didn't sleep?"

"No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like...
JOHN GREEN The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sle...
ROBERT FROST The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I ...
ROBERT FROST Naptime," said Christian, leading her toward the bed.
"I still need a shower."
"Sleep firs...
RICHELLE MEAD Stupid. Why do people want to pretend
that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t
VERONICA ROTH I won't sleep
if that's what it takes
to not wake up
as myself
CASEY RENEE KISER If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
YIDDISH PROVERB Dare to dream big. Dream while you are awake, and let those dreams take your sleep away.
DEBASISH MRIDHA ‎"Dreams will always come true. The key is to get enough sleep."
REZA FARIVAR Sleep!

May be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things never changed, the apocalyps...
SANHITA BARUAH These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before...
ROBERT FROST Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleep
While from him was taken a wife to keep.
Adam po...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Only to close these eyes
to sleep in the lap of love
and stay there forever.
KHADIJA RUPA Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times.
Some in truth hardly sleep...
GENE WOLFE Death Be Not Proud

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty ...
JOHN DONNE “The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep.”
ESAN MAGAZINE If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fiel...
JOHN MCCRAE Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfu...
BERNARD TAYLOR We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE So predictable makes you to sleep??
Makes you to get interested???
So what to start??? A c...
DEYTH BANGER When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep...
"I shou...
L.R. KNOST I rest in ease, knowing there are others out there, whispering themselves to sleep, just like me.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.
GEORGE WATSKY My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I slee...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Never go to sleep without preparing a dream for tomorrow.
TANJIR RASHID SORON What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill ALLEN GINSBERG To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
JOAN KLEMPNER To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
JOAN KLEMPNER Thanks for giving me a place to sleep last night,
and for the extra blanket.
Vi.<...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON A dream has power to poison sleep.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS and when love came to us twice
and lied to us twice
we decided to never love again
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep
MOHAMMED There is safety in numbness–
there is solace
in sleep.
LANG LEAV Are you still mad at me?"
"Yes."
"I'll go back to sleep, then."
"Good.
E.L. JAMES Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “...
VERONICA ROTH I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
aft...
HERACLITUS Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I...
GAYLE FORMAN Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels."
Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her moth...
KAREN MARIE MONING I remember sitting in bed, as a child
looking up at the ceiling
I couldn’t sleep, of cou...
JUSTIN WETCH What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?”

“Sleep w...
RICHELLE MEAD Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as...
AESCHYLUS What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE there is some aching
that will only heal...
in the mosque of sleep.
SANOBER KHAN Sleep my friend and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this c...
METALLICA WELCOME HOME SANITARIUM Don’t sleep with a blindfold on. Sleep with your eyes open and alert, because love may come in you...
JAROD KINTZ Dreams don't have time. Neither does sleep, nor death. That's why it is sometimes good to wear a wat...
TRACEY EMIN Sleep: the stepchild of Death.
NANCY A. COLLINS What silence rules the ghostly hours
That guard the close of human sleep!
(“The Testimon...
GEORGE STERLING The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I...
THEODORE ROETHKE Discover the delights of innovation & dream, you have yet not discovered.The future belongs to those...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Dare to dream. Don’t just let your dreams sit in your mind and rot. If you have a big dream or vis...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on t...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head
MUNIA KHAN Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for ...
DOUG HORTON He cubbed her in his arms to sleep,
even her demons snored that night ~
TANYA GAMBHIR I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years.<...
JAMES PATTERSON When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my be...
GERTRUDE STEIN You’re afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that be...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.
PAMELA BONE Lying in my bed, I pray for a dreamless sleep... but if I am to dream, I want to dream of her.
E.L. JAMES There are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and I want to be bot...
ASHE VERNON

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Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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