Festivals Quotes

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcasticd festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillar

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed

Rabindranath Tagore

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed

Germaine Greer

The festivals are like a map charting our spiritual progress in God.

Unknown

Feasts and festivals are a feature of all major religions.

Unknown

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month,

Walt Whitman

By the end of the decade it had become obvious that perhaps the one constant of our variegated and strung-out peer groups was a pervasive sense of self-consciousness that sent us in grouchy packs to ugly festivals just to be together and dig ourselves and each other, as if all of this meant something greater than that we were kids who liked rock 'n' roll and came out to have a good time, as if our very styles and trappings and drugs and jargon could be in themselves political statements for any longer than about fifteen stoned seconds, even a threat to the Mother Country! So we loved and loved and doted on ourselves and our reflections in each other even as the whole thing got out of hand and turned into mud and disaster areas and downs and death.

Lester Bangs