When your outlet is taken away from you, when your…

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.…

— Dorothy Parker

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I…

— Anne Rice

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

— Khaled Hosseini

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of…

— Khaled Hosseini

I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in…

— James Ransone

Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of…

— Steve Coogan

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of…

— Michael Caine

I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there.…

— Wesley Schultz

Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so…

— Peter Orner

Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I think I…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

It's difficult to define catharsis. But I think that only those who acknowledge and respond to unseen worlds and energies can harness the power…

— Hyon Gyon

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

— Dorothy Parker

Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric, and I'm…

— Kimbra

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents…

— Aristotle

“That's what it is. That's what my morning was like: all these real physical heavy positive vibrations, the soul of this tape. The fuzzy…

— John Darnielle