Omar Khayyám Quotes

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

Nehêle kul û derd dora te bigire
Xem û jan a pûç dema te bigire
Ji xwendin û dîtin û gerê nemîne
Berî ku ax, dev û çavên te bigire…

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

ولاتذق نفسك مر الأسى
فإنما اعمارنا للنفاذ

I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must, Scared by some After-reckoning ta'en on trust, Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, To fill the Cup — when crumbled into Dust!

Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

"Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever."

And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas — the Grape!

The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line.

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

Youth, like a magic bird, has flown away
He sang a little morning-hour in May
Sang to the rose, his love, that too is gone — Whither is more than you or I can say.

Shall I still sigh for what I have not got,
Or try with cheerfulness to bear my lot?
Fill up my cup! I know not if the breath
I now am drawing is my last, or not!

Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

الدرع لاتمنع سهم الأجل
والمال لايدفعه أن نزل
وكل مافي عيشنا زائل
لاشئ يبقى غير طيب العمل

Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.