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• Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 754
• This is the thing that I was born to do. -- Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) -- Musophilus, Stanza 100
• And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ii, Line 51...
• This is thy hour, O Soul; Thy free flight into the wordless Away from books, from art.
  The day erased; the lesson done. Thee fully forth emerging, Silent, gazing....
• Nyctophobia - A fear of night and darkness.
• Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
  -- Heinrich Heine...
• She stares off alone into the night With the eyes of one who hates for just being born.
  -- Badlands, "Racing In The Street" from "Darkness On The Edge of Tow...
• Night is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years.
  -- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- The Issues of Life and Death...
• PRO: You never have to get up in the morning. CON
  You will never have another good night's sleep. -- Pros and Cons of Death...