Catharsis Quotes

45 quotes by 39 authors

You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else… — Rajneesh
Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in… — Donald O'Connor
In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which… — E. Stanley Jones
Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same… — Luciano Berio
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 is… — Peter Orner
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing… — Aristotle
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet taken… — Mikhail Bakhtin
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never â€“ since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a… — Augusto Boal
Art is a form of catharsis. — Dorothy Parker
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker
By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In this sense, I'm really grateful… — Yoshiyuki Tomino
Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don't mean… — Flora Rheta Schreiber
I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand. — Joan Didion
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we… — Edward Zwick
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind… — Breyten Breytenbach
Catharsis isnâ€™t a wound being excavated from childhood. — Sarah Ruhl
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface… — Stephen Sondheim
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's… — Archie Shepp
There's something about a catharsis that is very important. — Glenn Close
The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working. — Melanie Lynskey

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