Top 70 Catharsis Quotes

I think I use writing as a catharsis. I feel sometimes that I’d like to share that with people, so Instagram becomes a vehicle.

I don’t really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I think I use writing as a catharsis. I feel sometimes that I’d like to share that with people, so Instagram becomes a vehicle.

I don’t end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don’t always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.

It’s expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that’s not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

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 me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That’s not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama – the catharsis of the play – then see drama at home.

The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you’re telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.

There’s a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there’s absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It’s maddening! It’s fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it’s something that’s a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

Theatricality – that’s where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn’t happening to them.

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 me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That’s not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

I’m kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4,000 people about it.

There’s something about a catharsis that is very important.

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

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 celebratory.

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 – and at the end of the day say, ‘See you in the pub, guys.’

I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama – the catharsis of the play – then see drama at home.

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 ever taught.

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout – rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story – but the chord has to be resolved.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It’s therapeutic.

I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It’s an event. It’s supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n’ roll show. I still kind of feel like I’m a rock n’ roll musician anyway.

It’s expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that’s not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

I couldn’t carry on straight after doing ‘Mother,’ it was really hard. Getting my anger out was a catharsis but it was also selfish and indulgent.

With ‘Guzaarish’ I went through a catharsis.

I couldn’t carry on straight after doing ‘Mother,’ it was really hard. Getting my anger out was a catharsis but it was also selfish and indulgent.

I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It’s an event. It’s supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n’ roll show. I still kind of feel like I’m a rock n’ roll musician anyway.

Being scared by a movie offers a safe catharsis, because the terror is confined to the screen. It’s an adrenalin spike, and when I come back down, I feel a bit more leveled.

Look, pain is there in the world, and there’s catharsis through that. I feel like there’s… a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.

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 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

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 go, I was unhappy.

When I feel something, I write it down so I guess technically it’s a personal catharsis, but I would really like to help people as I figure myself out.

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 it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.

Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?

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.

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 it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

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.

I don’t really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I’m kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4,000 people about it.

Theatricality – that’s where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn’t happening to them.

Better still – your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Worse than useless, I worry e-petitions are detrimental, with their sense of catharsis and mini-activism. Channelling away agitation, giving us the opportunity to show all our Facebook friends just exactly how great we are at being compassionate.

When your outlet is taken away from you, when your catharsis is stripped from you and you don’t understand why, and you’re so disappointed, and you’re so blindsided by it, it hurts.

I remember watching episodes of ‘The Sopranos’ and being filled with dread knowing what was coming or anticipating what was coming. I don’t think that that’s always a bad thing. I think sometimes the audience needs a little catharsis held away from them.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it’s, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven’t cracked it, that’s when you go home and it’s more difficult to switch off.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you’re working.

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 ever taught.

I’ve always had a little bit of darkness, and I’ve always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

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 want to resist the emotion that’s there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

I’ve always had a little bit of darkness, and I’ve always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.