Ritual Quotes · Page 6

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

— Timothy Leary

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

— Anonymous

“The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.”

— Pat Conroy

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

— Evelyn Underhill

“Ritual abuse may or may not have satanic overtones.”

— Susan C. Van Benschoten

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

— Dominick Dunne

“The corrupt are into rituals, whereas the virtuous are spiritual.”

— Abhaidev

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

— John Barth

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

— Alberto Manguel

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

— Frederick Lenz

“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –”

— Simona Panova

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by…

— Louis Farrakhan

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have…

— Sam Rockwell

British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the…

— Megan Boone

Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

— Chuck Close

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not…

— Tony Campolo

Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their…

— David Wojnarowicz

How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what…

— Anne Waldman

Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal. There are so many religions because immature…

— Peace Pilgrim

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a…

— Alain de Botton

I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in…

— Emraan Hashmi

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his…

— Richard M. Nixon

And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical…

— William S. Burroughs

A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated…

— Ninian Smart

The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Man must learn to believe in that which he does not, at the moment, see in order to grant himself that which…

— Neville Goddard

“Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead.…

— Ana Paula Maia

The Confucians paid a great deal attention to ritual, highlighting the ones that expressed the sorts of affective attitudes one wants to…

— David Wong

We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that…

— Michel Foucault

I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as…

— Carrie Brownstein

I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not…

— Andrew Solomon

“Ninth Ritual of Radiant Living quite nicely.”

— Robin S. Sharma

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.

— E. M. Broner

“second ritual. This is the Ritual of Physicality.”

— Robin S. Sharma

The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.

— Kate Green

Before I play a show, I put on lavender oil - it's sort of a ritual.

— Caroline Polachek

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

— Tea Obreht

I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person.

— Justin Bartha

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

— Anne Lamott