Festival Quotes

“The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“It's autumn," I said. "I can see the trees turning through the windows."
He tucked a strand of hair behind my ear.
"It's going to be the Day of the Dead soon," I said.
"Sounds gruesome."
"It's a festival." I looked at him over my shoulder. "The only one that gentry and peasants share. We celebrate Persephone going down to Hades for the winter, they remember Tom-a-Lone getting his head cut off by Nanny-Anna. Everybody makes grave offerings, then there's a great sacrifice to Hades and Persephone, and that night there's a bonfire and they burn a straw Tom-a-Lone dressed up in ribbons.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Throughout the year, in all regions, in all seasons; we HINDUS find reasons, to worship almost anything and everything, anyone and everyone; from people to Gods; from animals to plants; from planets to stars. So our spirits are always high with small surprises of life, we cherish meeting and greeting people, for in SANATAN DHARMA we celebrate every aspect of being human. We believe Bhagwan (God) is in every single particle and OM is in every single ATOM of the universe.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, You By You

“Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival--whether of labour or of leisure--will no longer be a basis for society.”
― Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader

“This Diwali; empower someone to enjoy the Festival of Lights, by making their life bright.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Yog To Yoga

“The world, and we as a part thereof, are the carnival mask on the face of Nonbeing.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“When the sky melts into a festival of colors...my deepest longings melt and become poetry...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“For two weeks every August, the normally private Charlotte Square opens its gates to admit the literary masses. Huge white tents block views of the iron railings that normally keep everyone out, and picnic tables and pastel deck chairs circle the equestrian statue of Prince Albert in the middle of the lawn, inviting readers to relax with their newest signed novel. The tents fill with crowds to see every sort of author: high-flying politicos touting bestselling memoirs; writers of fantasy, chick-lit, sci-fi, young adult (and every possible combination of those). Authors and illustrators enthrall throngs of preschoolers and parents; up-and-comers present their work for appreciative and encouraging audiences. Books are signed by the hundreds and set out for sale in the inviting bookshop tents. People bask in the sunshine, when there is any, or gather in the café tent and grumble good-naturedly about the rain. They shake hands; gush "I love your work"; add to their "to be read" lists, and leave carrying new hardbacks in handy Book Festival-branded tote bags.”
― Brianne Moore, All Stirred Up

“Happy Rakhi to me, Happy Rakhi to you and Happy Rakhi to the strongest bond on to the earth, let's prepare to celebrate the beautiful festival, lots of love, lots of fun and lots of happiness.”
― Santosh Kumar

“मारो मत पर जीत लो, अपने अंदर के रावण को।”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, You By You

“Diwali is celebrating with diyas, lighting up in heart too, for inner illumination.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Yog To Yoga

“This Diwali welcome the thoughts, rich in peace, to your abode called heart.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Yog To Yoga

“Diwali is not just a festival but way of celebrating the true homecoming, welcoming your true-self to your mind, body and soul.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Yog To Yoga

“Diwali is to pray and invite the powers of Bhagwan Ram to your heart to bless you thoughts of purity and power to fight evils.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Yog To Yoga

“Bhagwan Ram won't fight the evils for you but you can pray him to bless you courage like him to fight evils all by yourself and celebrate Diwali.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Yog To Yoga

“Light up the lamps of Joy and let there be smiles.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Yog To Yoga

“Shubh Diwali; the festival of illumination for inner and outer world.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Yog To Yoga

“Costumed and painted
We are life laughing at death
life beating its broad wings”
― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides

“He hopes we'll visit again soon. Perhaps in June, to see the emerald-colored frogs that stick to the stalks and attend Gion Matsuri, a festival where women dress in summer kimonos and the shops are decorated with art. There are floats in the evening and music spills onto the streets.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“People who believe in themselves can be anything they want. That's the truth.”
― Kaori Ozaki, The Gods Lie

“May the joy of this festival brighten your life and annihilate all the ills in this world. May Maa Durga’s nine avatars bestow their blessings on your family and friends, and may the auspicious energy of this festival bring you health and happiness throughout your life. Allow the divine power to give you the strength and power you need to overcome all of life’s challenges. I wish you and your family a Happy Navratri.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories

“Happy Holidays (The Sonnet)

Spirit of Christmas doesn't grow on a fir tree,
Christmas blooms wherever the heart is hatefree.
Ramadan isn't fulfilled by feasting on some tasty beef,
The greatest of feast is haram if others go hungry.
Hanukkah's miracle isn't about the oil lasting 8 days,
Rather it's about the resilience of light amidst darkness.
Fireworks may be diwali for those still in kindergarten,
Everyday is diwali for an existence rooted in kindness.
The will to love and the will to lift are the backbone,
Of all human celebration, tradition and communion.
Take that fundamental will out of the equation,
All you have left are rituals without meaning and mission.
Fasting, feasting and decorating are step two of any festival.
First and foremost, at our altar within, we gotta light a candle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“Let's start a tradition - a tangible tradition of integration. Instead of celebrating our own culture, let's dedicate each festival of ours to our sisters and brothers from another culture - let's celebrate their goodness, their laughter, their wisdom - so that one day, our children may wake up to a world where there is no "our culture and their culture", just "human culture".”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“You do not need a festival to celebrate, life itself is a festival, celebrate your life.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“This book has been so much fun to write, I have loved getting to know my animal characters even better!

This is a festival not to be missed its brimming with lots of doggy and cat fun

My favourite game is the grooviest shaker competition what will yours be?”
― christine skippins

“When the sky melts into a festival of colors...my deepest longings melt into a poetry...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Let our religions unite us for human kindness rather than dividing us on what we believe. Merry Christmas”
― Hockson Floin

“आज के रंगोत्सव एवं आनन्दोत्सव पर आपको ढेर सारी बधाई एवं शुभकामनाएं...

आज प्रभु जी से प्रार्थना है कि आपके पास मंगलकारी, सुखमय और खुशियों के सभी रंगों की तथा रंग लगाने वाले अपनों की भरमार बनी रहे और दिन प्रतिदिन बढ़ती चली जाये।

मंगलशुभकामनाएँ।”
― Rajesh Goyal

“In Extremis by Stewart Stafford

Saturnalia's trumpets sound,
The ancestral chorus song,
Time's gold web drawn back,
For the stocks' denizen throng.

Bawdy knights of the feral feast,
Daze of snoring stranger sloth,
As contagion's banquet guests,
Sipping end times' galling broth.

Bean found in fortuitous cake,
A fool crowned Lord of Misrule,
The meek's pantomimed throne,
A drone in a queen bee's tulle.

Fatted calf, societal scapegoat,
Chattels mopping festive vomit,
Charon coins on bloodshot eyes,
Execution dawn to a dark comet.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Costuming serves different, even opposite, functions for different people. For most, the wearing of team colors allows a fan to blend in with a mass of other similarly clad fans; it would be unwise to flout the color coding by inadvertently wearing the opponent's colors while sitting in a section of the bleachers occupied by home team fans. But for others, costuming - and in some cases, uncostuming, as with the Yalies who run naked through the stadium at the annual Harvard-Yale game - is a valid, some might say exhibitionist, bid for attention.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy