Cathartic Quotes

Boxing was really cathartic for me.

— Zoe Buckman

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

— Robert Pinsky

I think it's very cathartic to have someone to talk to.

— Justin Kan

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

— Dan Payne

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

— Santigold

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

— Cary Elwes

There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

— Dave Chappelle

“Self-destruction can be cathartic in the worst ways possible.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

— Nick Nolte

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

— Ellen Pompeo

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

— Sarah McLachlan

My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.

— Antoniette Costa

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.

— Trent Reznor

“laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex.”

— Patricia Gaffney

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

— Liev Schreiber

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

— Richard Helms

We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He…

— Mark Foley

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the…

— Leslye Headland

So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or…

— Dax Shepard

I know that Wes Craven feels watching horror films does have a psychological effect, in a good way. It is very cathartic.…

— Marley Shelton

I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang - it was always…

— Chet Faker

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out…

— Lisa Marie Presley

I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,…

— Koren Zailckas

In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but…

— Cassandra Clare

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism…

— George Will

Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify…

— Brendan Dooling

I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical…

— Adam Croasdell

Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt…

— George Carlin

I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually…

— John Carmack

Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.…

— Aldous Huxley

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

— Robin Williams

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

— Sarah Barthel

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

— Nic Pizzolatto

A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'

— Sherri Shepherd

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

— Trent Reznor

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second…

— Ville Valo

Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

— Sam Smith