“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Hays translation
II, 11
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book II
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: The Piper's Son
Ziad Jarrah (1975–2001) September 11th hijacker
Letter to Aysel Şengün (2001)
Context: Hold on to what you have until we meet again. And then we will have a very beautiful eternal life, where no problems exist and where there is no mourning, in castles of gold and silver and, and, and I did not leave you alone, Allah is with you and with my parents. If you need anything, then ask him what you need. He listens and knows what is within you.
“And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.”
Dylan Thomas Rebecca's Daughters
Source: Rebecca's Daughters
Fabian Picardo (1972) Gibraltarian politician and barrister
Address to the United Nations Fourth Committee in New York
2015
Zack de la Rocha (1970) American musician, poet rapper and activist best known as the vocalist and lyricist of rap metal band Rage Again…
No Shelter.
Song lyrics, The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)
Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
Source: Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek (2017), p. 8