Quotes About Catharsis

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.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Llorar, es necesario que eso también suceda.

Jag har en känsla av att lidandet inte kommer att upphöra förrän det finns i en bok... först då kommer det att vara slut. Först då kommer det att vara utplånat. Jag upptäcker det med den här historien som jag har med er: att skriva, det är antagligen, det också, att utplåna. Ersätta.

That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn't have any more tears left.

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it's out of your system and in their hands. I always think it's therapeutic.

It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.

Él, tan educado y pulido con su vocabulario ante la gente, sentía siempre, en la intimidad de su diario, una invencible necesidad de escribir obscenidades. Por razones que no comprendía bien, la coprolalia le hacía bien

I took the little radio from the kitchen and I went and sat in the spare room and I tuned it halfway between two stations so that all I could hear was white noise and I turned the volume up really loud and I held it against my ear and the sound filled my head and it hurt so that I couldn't feel any other sort of hurt, like the hurt in my chest

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. [ Mark Twain, a Biography ]

Wounds sometimes must be opened in order that they may be healed.

Sans un élément de cruauté à la base de tout spectacle, le théâtre n'est pas possible.

Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.

A friend of mine who is working on a memoir says, I hate the idea of writing as some kind of catharsis, because it seems like that can't possibly produce a good book. You cannot hope to console yourself for your grief by writing, warns Natalia Ginzburg. Turn then to Isak Dinesen, who believed that you could make any sorrow bearable by putting it into a story or telling a story about it.

You know what Hans told me last week? she says as I open the door of my fitting room. He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom. Oh right, I say interestedly. So what happened? I wrote it all down, says Laurel. And then I mailed it to her!

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

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.

Writing is not a hobby. It's the only way I get to shut up the demons in my head.

I just want to pour my soul out on someone and not have to worry about the mess I've made.