Omar Khayyam Quotes

To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon?

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

My friend, let’s not think of tomorrow, but let’s enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.

Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.

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.

A hair divides what is false and true.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

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 today.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

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.