Omar Khayyam Quotes

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.

Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Living is abnormal.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I do feel that slightly. I have no religious beliefs so this is the ride. This is it. So I'm just like anyone, I suppose, trying to fill out the days in the most interesting way possible.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.

Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can't be safe. Life's not safe. Your work isn't safe. When you leave the house, it isn't safe. The air you breathe isn't going to be safe, not for very long. That's why you have to enjoy the moment.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

I just live life and I do not think about what will happen.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.