Sacred And Profane Quotes

“Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“A beast sacred and profane bore him north, with a beautiful, terrifying woman, to defend a city wonderful in its horrors.”
― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise

“O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.”
― Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Volume 2

“(...) jealousy is painful not least because it sees the object of love, once sacred, as now desecrated.
One cure for the pain of desecration is the move towards total profanation: in other words, to wipe out all vestiges of sanctity from the once worshipped object, to make it merely a thing of the world, and not just a thing in the world, something that is nothing over and above the substitutes that can at any time replace it.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty

“Create a new narrative.
Interrupt the pattern.
Take back the pen.
Reclaim ownership of the story.

You—and only you—get to decide how the next chapter is written.

Write it all down.
The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two.
Write the prayers and the tantrums.
The sacred and the profane.
The open roads and the closed doors.

Nothing is permanent.
Erase what does not fit.
Cross it out.
Write on top of the lines that no longer serve, fifty times over if you want.

Remember, the only one who can write the next part of your story is you.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc