Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every s… - Nicolas Chamfort

" "

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nicolas Chamfort

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

sleep relief death sickness remedy living

English

Collect this quote

About Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort (6 April 1741 – 13 April 1794), born Nicolas-Sébastien Roch, was a French writer.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain / CC0)

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Nicolas de Chamfort • Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort • Chamfort • Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

All quotes from Nicolas Chamfort Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Nicolas Chamfort:

Molière Jean de La Bruyère George Bernard Shaw Erasmus Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Additional quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

L'ambition prend aux petites âmes plus facilement qu'aux grandes, comme le feu prend plus aisément à la paille, aux chaumières qu'aux palais.

Anyone placed at exactly the same distance between yourself and your enemy will always appear closer to your enemy.

La pensée console de tout et remédie à tout. Si quelquefois elle vous fait du mal, demandez-lui le remède du mal qu'elle vous a fait, elle vous le donnera.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. - Nicolas Chamfort

About Nicolas Chamfort

Also Known As

Share this quote as an image

Additional quotes by Nicolas Chamfort