Omar Khayyam Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Happy

• I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Wind, Water

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

• Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire
  To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire
  Would we not shatter it to bits-and then
  Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Sorry, Heart

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1989). “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.54, Branden Books

• 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 never come again.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

• You know how little while we have to stay,
  And, once departed, may return no more.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Departed, Return

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.121, University of Virginia Press

• But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
  Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
  Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
  And one by one back in the Closet lays.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Moving, Night

  Omar Khayyam, Saʻdī (1900). “Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan”

• Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
  Whose portals are alternate Night and Day,
  How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
  Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Thinking, Night

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.136, University of Virginia Press

• 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 it set out from. Oh, make haste!

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Taste, Waste

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

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