Ritual Quotes

What counts as ritual, from the sacred to the silly.

These ritual quotes range from the almost comic, a backstage habit built around flatulence, to a genuine fondness for the idea of ritual itself. One treats a weekly Chinese restaurant visit as its own kind of American ritual, showing how ordinary habits can take on that weight.


A more formal quote treats ritual and ceremony as conventional acts that can fail in their own particular way when done wrong. Read side by side, the quotes suggest Repetition alone can turn almost anything into a ritual.