"Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own place, but they are mere options for t..."
- Prem Prakash
"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with ..."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going to a funeral without first polishing the autom..."
- John Steinbeck
"O comportamento ritual não só revela realidades práticas e mundanas, é também um teatro vivo da psicologia colectiva e uma das mais ricas expressões da ideologia e crenças - mentalidade - de uma socie..."
- Victor Turner
"Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Kindness, not rituals, is mankind’s greatest prayer."
- Debasish Mridha
"People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes."
- Garth Stein
"Primitive humans could not comprehend the vastness of infinity and eternity, so as a trick of self-preservation they came up with the perception of survival of the soul after death and its recurring i..."
- Abhijit Naskar
"Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he must teach her about the horrors of the world in order to make her a stronger person; a s..."
- Margaret Smith
"Her eyes bled from venomous anger...Her flower had been gruesomely deflowered...Her life had slowly turned into a blunder...There was no more thinking further....She would rather become a Foetus murde..."
- Chinonye J. Chidolue