Quotes About Catharsis

I fucked her for the first time, next to the corpse. It was very painful for both of us, but we were glad precisely because it was painful.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.

To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.

You should never let secrets fester.

I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

I had to beat the bags, big time, I had to get out into the den and start screaming and move it through my body.

For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

I've got to get this stuff out of my system. No, more than that, much more. I've got to get my system out of my system. That's what I've got to do.

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.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wall that had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Nadie es capaz de hablar honestamente de sus sufrimientos hasta que ha dejado de sentirlos.

Kad sam ?ula kako to govori, suze su mi jednostavno probile krhki zid koji ih je zadržavao i sa strašnim osje?ajem srama, položila sam glavu na stol i pustila ih sa se izliju iz mene.

Nadie es capaz de hablar honestamente de sus sufrimientos hasta que no ha dejado de sentirlos.

The two together-intellectual illumination and emotional catharsis-are the essence of the aesthetic experience. The first constitutes the moment of truth; the second provides the experience of beauty. The two are complementary aspects of an indivisible process-that 'earthing' process where 'the infinite is made to blend itself with the finite, to stand visible, as it were, attainable there' (Carlyle).

I must let this pain flow through me and pass on. If I resist or try to stop it, it will detonate inside me, shatter me, splatter my pieces against every wall and person that I touch.

Ixion had committed one of the first blood murders; unless he was cleansed of his transgression, the Furies would pursue him until he went mad. The princes, lords and neighbouring landowners of Thessaly had cause to dislike Ixion and none offered to perform the catharsis, the ritual process of purification that would redeem him.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

Dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then. And that people who dream - or don't dream in a way they can often remember when they wake up - are mentally constipated in some way.