Quotes by Khayyam, Omar

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

Khayyam, Omar on the future   

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

Khayyam, Omar on alcohol and alcoholism   

"'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays."

Khayyam, Omar on death   

"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."

Khayyam, Omar on life   

"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."

Khayyam, Omar on argument   

"And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I."

Khayyam, Omar on sky   

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."

Khayyam, Omar on solitude
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"A hair divides what is false and true."

Khayyam, Omar on truth
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"Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!"

Khayyam, Omar on war   

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"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."

Khayyam, Omar on wine   

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

Khayyam, Omar on writers and writing