Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“The pain is real. So too is the catharsis. In the end there is life and love.” — Kevin Carey-Infante Copy Share Image
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image
I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is never condoning the terrible act; it is severing hatred's tumour bloodline for self-preservation. Only by refusing this amputation does the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
When your outlet is taken away from you, when your catharsis is stripped from you and you don't understand why, and you're… — Tomi Lahren Copy Share Image
The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“The sobs tearing through her were catharsis. Painful and messy, shredding her heart—and leaving a blissful sort of peace in their wake.… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric,… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“That's what it is. That's what my morning was like: all these real physical heavy positive vibrations, the soul of this tape.… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look -… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“But the catharsis hypothesis is a myth— a plausible one, an elegant one, but a myth nonetheless. Scores of studies have shown… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think I use writing as a catharsis. I feel sometimes that I'd like to share that with people, so Instagram becomes… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
![“I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and…” quote by David Schwimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f2/david-schwimmer-8353_adamant_i-had-invited-50-or-60-peers-and-friends_1866560.jpg)
![“Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes…” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b2/khaled-hosseini-251_ask-me_was-there-happiness-at-the-end-of-the-mo_375102.jpg)
