“Open your eyelids, will you all, and let your brains leave sleep behind.”
As quoted by Festus, in De verborum significatione (Loeb translation)
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Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Source: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), Chapter 2, Verse 14
“Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin
Variant: Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings
Source: Royal Assassin
“So if I come to your door,
let me sleep on your floor.
I'll give you all I have and a little more.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
Down South
Lyrics, Highway Companion (2006)
“Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
Bohumil Hrabal book Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Source: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age