Quotes About Ritualistic

The formulaic inexorability of these villains' defeat does give the climaxes an oddly soothing, ritualistic quality, and it makes the villains martyrs in a way, sacrifices to our desire for black-and-white morality and comfortable judgment...

A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow.

când oameni mulÈ›i se afl? împreun?, trebuie separaÈ›i prin ritualuri, altfel se masacreaz?.

Desdemona picked the beads up. She began to slip them one by one through her fingers, exactly as her father had done, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather, performing a family legacy of precise, codified, thorough worrying.

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As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car. And I do that when I get onto a plane as well!

Human sacrifice," the skull chirped brightly. "The slaughter of an innocent.

Rock salt and bread by the doorstep to placate any resident gods. Sandalwood on our pillow, to sweeten our dreams.

It looked ritualistic

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

saddle, brushes down my gown, hands me my hat

From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.

Bell, book, and candle," he said, his eyes still on my face, and not without sympathy. "What?" "Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle," he said quietly, and touched the paper on my knee. "It's the rite of excommunication and anathema, Sassenach—and that's what I have done.

Animals may perform rituals, even quite elaborate ones, but only humans commemorate and celebrate, and only humans tie these to a belief system.

It is not often given to human beings to be able to treat a fragment of time that can never return again with the intense and ritualistic concentration appropriate to a moment irretrievably slipping away into an everlasting impossibility of repetition.

This makes me feel ritually unclean.

She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone.

All that smoke and savour rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.

We need ritual because it is an expression of the fact that we recognize the difficulty of creating a different and special kind of community. A community that doesn't have a ritual cannot exist. A corporate community is not a community. It's a conglomeration of individuals in the service of an insatiable soulless entity.