Catharsis Quotes

45 Catharsis quotes by 39 unique authors

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally… — Peter Mullan
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. — Nathalie Sarraute
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 that is, to… — Mindy Kaling
I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way,… — Sarah Ruhl
I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation. — Greg Bryk
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. Oh,… — Dorothy Parker
Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a… — Gail Collins
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for… — Roger Ebert
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it… — Tyler Perry
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a… — Josh Radnor
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was… — Anne Rice
Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, endâ€¦crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). — Khaled Hosseini
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the… — Bret Easton Ellis
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,… — Khaled Hosseini
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis… — Thomas Wolfe
When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but… — Danielle Steel
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives,… — Maurice Sendak
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things. — Maurice Sendak
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have… — Andrei Tarkovsky

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