Rubaiyat Quotes

“Tis all a Chequer-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.”
― Omar Khayyam

“Of all my seeking this is all my gain:
No agony of any mortal brain
Shall wrest the secret of the life of man;
The Search has taught me that the Search is vain.”
― Omar Khayyam

“هر یک چندی یکی بر آید که: منم! با نعمت و با سیم و زر آید که: منم!
چون کارَک او نظام گیرد روزی، ناگه، اجل از کمین در آید که: منم!”
― Omar Khayyám, رباعيات خيام

“Dünyada olan biteni ben de görmedeyim;
Haksızları hep baş köşelerde görmedeyim;
Fesuphanallah! Nereye bakarsam bakayım
Kendi mutsuzluğumu her yerde görmedeyim.”
― Omar Khayyam

“Ne yazık, pişmiş ekmek çiğlerin elinde;
Ne yazık, çeşmeler cimrilerin elinde,
O canım Türk güzeli kömür gözleriyle,
Çaylakların, uğruların, eğrilerin elinde...

Sayfa: 68”
― Ömer Hayyam, Rubailer

“Ne laisse point le chagrin s'emparer de toi ;
Ni ennui et tristesse assombrir tes jours.
N'abandonne ni le livre, ni le bord du ruisseau, ni la lisière du champ,
Avant que la terre ne te prenne dans son sein.”
― Omar Khayyám, رباعيات خيام

“from Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat:
"Set not thy heart on any good or gain, Life means but pleasure, or means but pain; when Time lets slip a little perfect hour, O take it - for it will not come again.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Caravan

“And out my cup,
life keeps pouring out, it never stops —
Like the autumn leaves;
breath by breath, they're falling off.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“quoting Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat:
"Good friends beware! the only life we knows Flies from us like an arrow from the bow, the Caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Caravan

“A book of verses, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, now that’s divine.
The Rubaiyat, no longer an afterthought, I see the light!”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19