You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Tis but a day we sojourn here below, And all the gain we get is grief and woe, Then, leaving our life's… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Today is the time of my youth I drink wine because it is my solace; Do not blame me, although it is… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Would you be happy! hearken, then, the way: Heed not to-morrow, heed not yesterday; The magic words of life are here and… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“When you have planted the rose of Love into your heart your life has not been in vain.” — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Of threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain—This Life flies; One thing is certain and the… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“O friend, for the morrow let us not worry This moment we have now, let us not hurry When our time comes,… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Strange is the riddle of this life of ours! Who knows the meaning of the heavenly powers? Great Caesar's wounds bleed yearly… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Poor soul, you will never know anything of real importance. You will not uncover even one of life's secrets. Although all religions… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win- What? for ourselves, who know not if… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; its a shame that… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Our life is as short as a raging fire: flames the passer-by soon forgets, ashes the wind blows away. A man's life.” — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing.… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain,… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“What is my true substance? What will remain of me after my death? Our life is as short as a raging fire:… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Don't pursue happiness! Life is as short as a sigh. The dust of people that were once famous turn with the reddish… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain - This Life flies; One thing is certain… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“The secrets eternal neither you know nor I And answers to the riddle neither you know nor I Behind the veil there is much… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“And do you think that unto such as you A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew God gave a secret, and denied it me? Well, well—what… — Omar Khayyâm Copy Share Image
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“It is a shame for anyone to be well-known for righteousness. It is a great disgrace to feel distress at the injustice of the… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Why do you sell your wine, merchant? What can they give you in exchange for your wine? Money? … And what can money give… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Is it not a Shame--is it not… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Don't cry upon you losses Don't mesure today with tommorows Don't trust to passed and coming day Believe in now - and be happy… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“When your soul and mine have left our bodies and we are burried alongside each other, a Potter may one day mould the dust… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
