Quote by Omar Khayyam: “The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.”

Time writes the events of your life as they happen and then keeps moving — nothing you do can call it back to change a single word. The past is fixed; what matters is how you respond to what is happening now.

Khayyam composed these quatrains during a period of relative stability under Seljuk patronage, even as theological debates raged about fate, free will, and the divine. His Rubaiyat meditated on the irreversibility of time with a calm that bordered on defiance.

Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet born around 1048 in Nishapur, best known in the English-speaking world through Edward FitzGerald's translation of his Rubaiyat. His quatrains explore pleasure, impermanence, and scepticism toward religious certainty with elegant brevity.