Quotes About Ritualistic

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

Different from Zuleika, he cared for his wardrobe and his toilet-table not as a means to making others admire him the more, but merely as a means through which he could intensify, a ritual in which to express and realise, his own idolatry.

It was a circumambulation of such precise, ritualistic grief no one interfered.

Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

Burn a little incense, sacrifice a chicken or two, smoke a cigar, then shake your maracas and dance.

Sacrifice is repeating the event that has saved the community from its own violence, which is killing a victim.

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.

Every year I buy jewelry to wear on Navami.

Wine and bread. This has always seemed rather ghoulish to me, as though one were smearing the threshold with Puree of Christ. "Thank

Every single sexual deviation is overwhelmingly dominated by white males. And most sexually related ritualistic crimes are committed by white males.

Thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.

It was either a ritual sacrifice, or more nuts and berries for dinner.

I do love the idea of ritual.

Like art, sex is fraught with symbols. Family romance (Freud) means that adult sex is always representation, ritualistic acting out of vanished realities.

In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion: they imply an unpleasant future variation in ritual and hierarchy: an exchange of one set of rituals for another, or perhaps for a less structured society with fewer rituals. And yet there are times when societies must change.

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

The next step was to remove the brain. The priest took a long iron rod with a hook on it. He pushed it up through Tut's nose, broke through the bone behind the eyes with a squick sound, and twirled the rod around like a whisk to break up and liquefy the brain. Again, they believed the heart was the location for thought, so the brain had no purpose.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

Slowly the sense of ritual stole around the smoky chamber and entered my mind and body.

In deference, we would make the sacrifice an ecstacy.

When I was little, whenever I got out of the shower, I never wanted to touch the floor because once you touch the floor, your feet are dirty again. So in the shower, I used to put my socks on already without drying them off.

El hombre de las sociedades arcaicas tiene tendencia a vivir lo más posible en lo sagrado o en la intimidad de los objetos consagrados.

The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.