“Live to your rebirth and do what you will
(Oh by jingo)
Forget all I've said, please bear me no ill.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
After All
Song lyrics, The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
Abide as the Self
“Live to your rebirth and do what you will
(Oh by jingo)
Forget all I've said, please bear me no ill.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
After All
Song lyrics, The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
“Remembrance is the life of grief; his grave,
Forgetfulness.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) English translator
Book XVIII, stanza 2
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Geling Yan (1958) Chinese writer and screenwriter
Source: "Yan Geling: I Am Also A Person In The Cave" https://www.bannedbook.org/en/bnews/lifebaike/20211010/1635954.html (10 October 2021)
“They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Parents and Children
Source: Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready."”
Robin Williams (1951–2014) American actor and stand-up comedian
As quoted in The Fourth—And by Far the Most Recent—637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990) edited by Robert Byrne, p, 518
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 16, “Ragnarok: The Final Destiny of the Gods” (p. 278)