Omar Khayyam Quotes

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.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

Even God cannot change the past.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

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

There is no turning back.

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

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

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.

No one can defy fate.

There's some bells you can't unring.

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.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

When it's your time, it is your time.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

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

Fate will find a way.