Omar Khayyam Quotes

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.

Everything works out how it should.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Even God cannot change the past.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

History turns in one direction only, and you can't get it back. You can only draw conclusions.

If the world is turning, even the church can’t stop it; if it isn’t turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

If something is meant to be, then it will be.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.