"Eternal sleep" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Law, the Path, which thou dost strive To find and canst not find.—Could spirits shed Tears for their lot, it were my lot to weep, Showing the road which I shall never tread, Though my foot points it.—Sleep, eternal sleep, Dark, long, and cold forgetfulness my lot!— But do not thou at human ills repine, Secure there lies full guerdon in this spot For all the woes that wait frail Adam's line— Stoop, then, and make it yours—I may not ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott
... Williams, "you took such good care of the sheep herders last spring, some of you put them to eternal sleep." ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... son of Zeus, whom SELENE (q. v.) carried off to Mount Lemnos, in Caria, where, as she kissed him, he sank into eternal sleep. This is one ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... the soul, by the act of dying, only passes to another state. If it were not so, all nature would in time become dead, just as if people did not awake out of sleep all would at last be buried in eternal sleep. Whence the conclusion is that the souls of men ...
— Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates • Plato
... advance, joyous and childish, and summons Kundry, the guilty one, who rests in the dead lethargy of destiny, and in sorrow and anger only follows his command. She longs no more for life, but seeks deliverance in the eternal sleep. She has laughed at the bleeding head of John, laughed when she beheld the Savior bleeding at the cross, and is now condemned to laugh forever and to ensnare all in her net of passion: "Whoever can resist thee, will release thee," says ...
— Life of Wagner - Biographies of Musicians • Louis Nohl
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