Catharsis Quotes
45 quotes by 39 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing…
— Aristotle
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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
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When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a…
— Augusto Boal
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Art is a form of catharsis.
— Dorothy Parker
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
— Dorothy Parker
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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
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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
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I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.
— Joan Didion
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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
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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
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Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
— Sarah Ruhl
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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
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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
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There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
— Glenn Close
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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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