Omar Khayyam Quotes

Time is flying never to return.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

Thus we live, forever taking leave.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Today will die tomorrow.

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

All things must pass.