Top 20 Incense Quotes

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

We had incense and rock’n’roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.

I got into incense the first time I visited Japan with Simple Minds in the 80s, now I stock up every time I go back. There’s an otherworldliness about these little cedar wood sticks – which Samurai warriors used to cleanse the spirit – that just helps you ‘escape.’

There are lots of things to like about being Eastern Orthodox – incense, liturgies, all the baklava you can eat – but you know what I like best? None of that stupid ‘women’s ministry’ stuff.

My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow… Really good stuff for when you’re at a young age.

I take a baths all the time. I’ll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I bring incense, essential oils, and candles to make my hotel room feel more like home.

While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.

I used to wear the sweetest, gnarliest things that smelt like candy. That said, I’ve always burned incense – a real hippie situation – and have forever been drawn to patchouli, musk, woodsy scents and rose.

When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

None of our bars smell like a bar at all – that’s our number one rule – and we use certain scented candles and certain types of incense in order to give our bars a specific feel and ambiance.

When I’m off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It’s a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything – going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I’m just like rose petals. I’m like incense. I’m a background thing for you when you do your thing with your lady. I’m a friend, only assisting you in your lurve machinations. So have no fear of me, people.

I always felt that, when I saw Denzel or Viola do scenes in their past films or past projects, that if it’s a heavy scene, and it’s requiring a lot of emotional weight, that we would have nothing but silence and incense burning in between takes just to keep things quiet.

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.

I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a ‘nose bath’ in an old book just does something.

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.