Ritual Quotes

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Rituals are important.

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else.

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Prayer is a path where there is none.

I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.