Omar Khayyam was a Persian polymath, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet .The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian Mystic, mathematician and astronomer.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Originally published in 1940, republished in 1946
Disclaimer: He was not a religious scholar so don’t take his quotes on religious point if views.
Some Quotes of him are as follows:
“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”- Omar Khayyam
“Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays.” – Omar Khayyam //Omar Khayyam wisely tried to describe the world with his quotes.
“Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest feel the pain yourself, but don’t hurt others. ” – Omar Khayyam
“Don’t pursue happiness! Life is as short as a sigh.” ― Omar Khayyám
“You can not start life from the beginning, but you can continue it in another way.” – Omar Khayyam
“Life is as short as a raging fire: flames the passer-by soon forgets, ashes the wind blows away. A man’s life.” – Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
“I am a mirror …. and, who looks in me …..Whatever good or bad he speaks, …. he speaks of himself .” – Omar Khayyam
Short Poem of him “When you and I behind the veil are past…” – Omar Khayyam
“When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
As the Sea’s self should heed a pebble-cast.” – Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Poem: “The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.” – Omar Khayyam
“Strange – is it not? – that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too..” – Omar Khayyam
“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
“Dead yesterday and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet”…..Omar Khayyam
“A Hair perhaps divides the False and True.” – Omar Khayyam
“Ah moon of my delight that knows no wane.” – Edward Fitzgerald, “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”
“The lower the soul of a person, the higher the nose up. He stretches his nose to where the soul has not grown..”- Omar Khayyam
“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, Rubaiyat
“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.” – Omar Khayyam
“There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.” – Omar Khayyam
“Besides, what do those words mean? Do you know any traveler who has been there?” – Omar Khayyám
“When you have planted the rose of Love into your heart your life has not been in vain.” ― Omar Khayyám
“Awake! for morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight.” The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“Do not hold back what is going away, and do not push away what comes. And then happiness itself will find you.” – Omar Khayyam
“The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.” – Omar Khayyam
“The dust that is now under the foot of every animal Has once been the hand of an adored one and the face of a beloved.” – Omar Khayyam
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,” Omar Khayyam
“Justice is the soul of the universe.” – Omar Khayyam
