Big Sleep

Famous quotes containing the words big sleep, big and/or sleep:

“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

“Kicking the heart
with pain’s big boots running up and down
the intestines like a motorcycle racer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the actions in which they are concerned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)