Ram Dass Quotes

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Life is an incurable disease.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

We are all dying of life.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Birth was the death of him.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.