Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
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.
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
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.
Awake my little ones, and fill the cup before life's liquor in its cup be dry.
Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.
The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
Dust into Dust, and under dust to lie, sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!
Here's to the man who owns the land, that bears the grapes, that makes the wine, that tastes as good as this does.
Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
.A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth.
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.
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.
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.
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.
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?
Realize this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy, because you don't know where you came from and you don't know where you will be going.
Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he. He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness, great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery. But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue, the wintry soul that hates to hear a song, the close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye, And all the little poisoned ways of wrong.