“Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Phrixus, Frag. 830
“Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted.”
Earth, Act III, sc. iii, l. 113
Variant: Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life.
Source: Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
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They sleep, and it is lifted." by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
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“Someone arrived there — who lifted the veil of the goddess, at Sais.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
But what did he see? He saw — wonder of wonders — himself.
Novalis here alludes to Plutarch's account of the shrine of the goddess Minerva, identified with Isis, at Sais, which he reports had the inscription "I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised."
Pupils at Sais (1799)
“We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
"Mind Games"
Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
Context: p>We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic — the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.</p
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Mont Blanc http://www.readprint.com/work-1366/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1816), st. 3
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Variant: Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Epitaph", written for himself (1833)