Ritual Quotes

“Let's get to the Drive-In Totals.”

“Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air, Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair... And I will give thee what thou askest me.”

“The Cardinal rose with a dignified look, He call’d for his candle, his bell, and his book!”

“I had to have the chicken before every game. It became a superstition.”

“Before I go out on the stage, I say a little prayer. I ask for the help of my guardian angel.”

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.”

“Ritual is the way we carry the sacred.”

“To inflame thyself with prayer.”

“Ritual is a symbolic statement which 'says' something about the individuals involved in the action.”

“To invoke is to swear. Oaths are the grand keys of religion; they are the sacraments of the will.”

“Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experience that no amount of explaining can substitute.”

“You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.”

“Theater is a ceremony. A ritual. It is the only secular ceremony left.”

“Conflicts are a part of social life and customs and rituals are the mechanisms by which they are handled.”

“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”

“Genuine magical procedure is not an arbitrary and fantastic ceremonial.”

“Rituals have a power that goes beyond their symbolic meaning. They connect us to the past and to a larger reality.”

“Ceremonial Magic is the ancient art of invoking and controlling spirits by a scientific application of certain formulae.”

“Architecture is surely not the design of space, certainly not the massing or the organization of volumes. These are auxiliary inputs. Architecture is the art of ritual.”

“Every performance is a ceremony.”