Quotes About Catharsis

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

The best time to speak own mind is when the emotions reach to the peak to make the soul to weep and the heart to cry yet the eyes appear dry of tears.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed. Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form, and there it stopped.

The Plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy.

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself… with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Somepeople drink to foregt, I smoke to remember" Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City...

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.

You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.

Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can't say to humans.

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I don't really know how to articulate it to people directly - my friends, my family, or my girlfriend - then I'll write a song about it because I know I can articulate it that way.

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

I think anger is a good thing.

Le escribió entonces una carta febril de veinte pliegos en la que soltó sin pudor las verdades amargas que llevaba podridas en el corazón desde su noche funesta. Le habló de las lacras eternas que él había dejado en su cuerpo, de la sal de su lengua, de la trilla de fuego de su verga africana.

I cried, steady tears, like rain. And, like rain, they brought ease.

I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

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

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

Acting is therapeutic.