While Mortals Sleep Quotes

#1. Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

William Drummond

#2. Love is perfect kindness.

Joseph Campbell

#3. Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

Francesco Petrarca

#4. When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Albert Brooks

#5. Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

Omar Khayyam

#6. Make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.

Robert Walser

#7. I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Thelonious Monk

#8. The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

Oliver Goldsmith

#9. She was a tiny girl - a trinket brunette, very pretty, very pale, and hard as nails.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10. While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

Phillips Brooks