Omar Khayyam Quotes

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Everything is only a dream.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

Life, what is it but a dream?

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.