Top 50 Cathartic Quotes

In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization.

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That’s where the action is. And it’s the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you’re not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, ‘Thank God I’m not him.’

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

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I’d always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing.

Sadness is a necessary emotion. It’s maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it’s cathartic.

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

The Shawshank Redemption’ isn’t a movie about a black guy and a white guy who become friends – it’s a movie about freedom. At the end, the cathartic experience of seeing our own emotions reflected back to us, that’s the purpose of storytelling.

Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, ‘That’s me,’ or ‘That’s someone I know’ – you relate to it in a way that’s cathartic.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it’s writing my own stuff or singing other people’s music; it’s very freeing.

I like a good cry – it’s cathartic; it’s a release. But I’ve never been able to be so free to do that on camera the way some actors can.

Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two – beauty and violence – live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

I think it actually is easier for players to abstain from watching than it is for people who haven’t experienced it. I know a wide variety of former players that don’t really follow football any more. They’ve kind of had that cathartic experience. They know what it is.

Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release – but music is physical. Music pummels you. It’s got a beat; it’s loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.

For me, working out is a form of therapy. It’s cathartic for me; it’s a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I’ll feel so much better afterwards.

I have always been a great fan of albums that are cathartic and that you can listen to them together and you can relate to them as a group of people or as friends.

It’s always cathartic for me to write music.

The performance of Carnatic music is multi-dimensional and layered. A performance is at once an artiste’s cathartic process of personal exploration and an open energy exchange with the audience: a release and a conversation.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

The only thing that’s helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express – it’s very cathartic for me. I’m hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

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

I don’t want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I’m always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.

Going to Belgium proved to be quite a cathartic experience for me because it eventually helped to heal the situation of leaving Leicester too.

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

It’s really cathartic to play my songs live. I’m a really non-confrontational person, so my songs are kind of like all the things I never get to say to anyone.

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

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

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 anything. You’re literally thinking about the turn you’re setting up and there’s something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I’ve experienced, what I’ve felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don’t want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

A lot of action heroes, we’re told they are heroic primarily because they commit violence upon the bad guy. It can be cathartic; it can be thrilling. But at some point, I think you want more from your heroes than just the ability and willingness to pummel someone.

When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don’t even have to mention that.

Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

I don’t know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it’s always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people’s opinions.

Returning to running has been a really cathartic experience.

I’ve always felt like writing and creating music is similar to therapy, because you’re spending days, weeks, months reflecting on yourself and your life and trying to process everything and express those feelings out loud. It can be incredibly cathartic and healing.

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

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

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

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

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

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

Playing live is what it’s all about for me. It’s cathartic, it’s emotional, it’s about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing.

It’s pretty cathartic for me to write a letter to God and tell him what I’m praying for that day or what I’m going through emotionally.

I don’t keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it’s cathartic.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don’t think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

I’d say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.

For me, fiction isn’t very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it’s a whole different thing – whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don’t really compare – not for me.