Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Mahabharata. Along with the Mahabharata, it forms the Hindu Itihasa. These powerful Ramayana quotes will inspire you throughout your life.
Best Ramayana Quotes
- “Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.” – Ramayana
- “Grief destroys one’s courage. It destroys one’s learning. It destroys one’s everything. There is no enemy greater than grief.” – Ramayana
- “Those who have knowledge of dharma say that truth is the highest dharma.” – Ramayana, Ramayana quotes on truth
- “There is no deity powerful than time.” – Ramayana
- “A Veena cannot exist without its strings. A chariot cannot exist without its wheels. Without her husband, a woman can never live happily even though she has a hundred sons.” – Ramayana
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“There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger, and greed.” – Ramayana
- “All the sleepers in a night of delusion beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the material world, become absorbed in the contemplation of the supreme. None can be regarded as really woken up from sleep till they have renounced all sensuous delights.” – Ramayana
- “Beauty may leave the moon, Himalaya may become bereft of snow, the ocean may transgress its shores but I will never violate the promise given by my father.” – Ramayana
- “If a person is gifting away his elephant but his heart is set on the rope used for tying the elephant, of what use is his attachment to the rope when he is giving away the elephant itself.” – Ramayana
- “To be happy always is something which is difficult to achieve. That is to say, happiness and sorrow alternate in one’s life and there cannot be uninterrupted happiness alone.” – Ramayana
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“No life is expunged before the appointed hour.” – Ramayana
- “You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.” – Ramayana
- “He who does not repay a favour is a stigma to humanity.” – Ramayana
- “Only a person’s conduct and character proclaim whether he is born in a good family or whether he is boasting about himself or whether he is unblemished (shuchih) or blemished (ashuchih).” – Ramayana
- “One who is naughty, who does not know whether what he does is right or wrong and who has taken to the wrong path is to be disciplined even if he is a guru, parent or an elder in age or learning.” – Ramayana
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“No burden is too heavy for providence, not even death.” – Ramayana
- “Only the timid and the weak leave things to destiny (daivam) but the strong and the self-confident never bank on destiny or luck (bhagya).” – Ramayana
- “It is difficult for the children to repay the debt of what the mother and the father have done to bring them up.” – Ramayana
