Omar Khayyam Quotes · Page 2

1048 – 1131

Persian polymath and poet, whose quatrains were popularised in English by Edward FitzGerald.

25 quotesAbout Omar Khayyam on Wikipedia

“He brought me hither to my great surprise From life I gather but a dark surmise; I go perforce. Why come? Why live? Why go? I ask these questions, but find no replies.”

— Omar Khayyam

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