I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Sleep is presented as a safe, pleasant escape that shields us from the harshness of waking life, likened to death without responsibility.
- In plain terms
- Sleep protects us from the unpleasantness of being awake.
- What can you take from it?
- Value rest as a protective pause.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does sleep help us cope with daily stress?
- When does retreat become avoidance?
Another view
Equating sleep with death may romanticize avoidance of problems.
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