Edward Fitzgerald Quotes

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

Even the Gods Can't Change History

Even God cannot change the past.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

There's some bells you can't unring.

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

There is no turning back.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

No one can defy fate.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

Some things you can't control.

When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

This is one doodle that can't be un-did, Homeskillet.