Ramayana Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Ramayana.
Top Quotes
“Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama”
“The husband enhances the beauty of a woman more than her ornaments.”
“The general spirit of India was most vividly reflected in the Ramayana.”
“Wikipedia: Ramayana”
“अत्येति रजनी या तु सा न प्रतिनिवर्तते”
“उद्विजन्ते यथा सर्पान्नरादनृतवादिनः”
“The night that has passed, does not return.
• Chapter 105, shloka 19 (tr. Sri K. M. K. Murthy)”
“सत्यवादी हि लोकेऽस्मिन्परमं गच्छति क्षयम्”
“By Indra! how beautiful this is and how much better than the Bible, the Gospel and all the words of the Fathers of the Church!”
“People fear of a person, who speaks untruth, as one fears a snake.
• Chapter 109, shloka 12 (tr. Sri K. M. K. Murthy)”
“The one who speaks truth obtains the highest position in this world.
• Chapter 109, shloka 11 (tr. Sri K. M. K. Murthy)”
“She was lovely like an indistinct lunar disc, like a streak of gold covered with dust, like a golden reed broken by the wind, like a scar left by an arrow!”
“O king, the speaker of soft words is common, but the speaker and the listner of unwelcome though beneficial words are rarities.
• Chapter 37, shloka 2”
“References to the story of Rama occur in the earliest part of the Sangama literature of Tamil Nadu, dating back to a period almost as old as the Ramayana of Valmiki.”
“We should not indulge in grief. Grief is injurious.— Grief destroys a person even as a wrathful serpent doth a boy.
• Chapter 64, shloka 9 (tr. Manmatha N. Dutt)”
“Like unto trees whose roots have been reduced, cruel persons, execrated of men, who perpetrate iniquitous acts, do not exist long.
• Chapter 29, shloka 7 (tr. Manmatha N. Dutt)”
“यदाचरति कल्याणि शुभं वा यदि वाऽशुभम्।
तदेव लभते भद्रे कर्ता कर्मजमात्मनः।।”
“O, blessed lady! O gracious one! A doer reaps surely the fruit of his own deeds corresponding to the nature of work either good or bad, of that which he does!
• Chapter 63, shloka 6 (tr. Sri K. M. K. Murthy)”
“धर्मादर्थः प्रभवति धर्मात्प्रभवते सुखम्।
धर्मेण लभते सर्वं धर्मसारमिदं जगत्।।”
“न विषादे मनः कार्यम् विषादो दोषवत्तरः |
विषादो हन्ति पुरुषम् बालम् क्रुद्ध इव उरगः”