I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play…

“Many children and grandchildren of immigrants, have, like Sarah, found themselves severed from their family’s cultural rituals. The funeral system in the United States…

— Caitlin Doughty

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

— Deborah Norville

Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals,…

— Chip Conley

“I was amazed, shocked, and sickened by what I heard throughout the day, over and over, by many victims' stories. I can think of…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

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

— Michel Foucault

We lack rituals in this modern world.

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Tony Campolo

“Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much conscious thought.”

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But…

— Richard Bach

Their share in all estates in rituals are asking why not asking, why?

— Mak_786

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

— Patricia J. Williams

Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,…

— Andre Aciman

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

— Isabella Rossellini

Rituals are important.

— John Lennon