“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“Poor soul, you will never know anything
of real importance. You will not uncover
even one of life's secrets. Although all religions
promise paradise, take care to create your own
paradise here and now on earth.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“O friend, for the morrow let us not worry
This moment we have now, let us not hurry
When our time comes, we shall not tarry
With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“Today is the time of my youth
I drink wine because it is my solace;
Do not blame me, although it is bitter it is pleasant,
It is bitter because it is my life.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
"Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, -
O love, there is no other life - but here."
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
"The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy."
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
"In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls."
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
"If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I?"
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
"Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131