Ritual

• “A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.”

• “Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.”

• “Ritual. One more gaudy emptiness in place of the real thing. One more hope gone.”

• “Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.”

• “A daughter who respects you while you’re alive is far better than a son who performs the rites and rituals after you’re gone.”

• “Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Ritual across IJR