Quote of Homer - Sleep and Death are twin brothers....
Biography - Homer:
Legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Period:
8th century BC
Place of birth: Turkey
Period:
8th century BC
Place of birth: Turkey
Sleep and Death are twin brothers.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: sleep
Quotes about death:
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Homer also said...
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