Quotes About Catharsis

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

For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.

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

Returning to running has been a really cathartic experience.

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.

Boxing was really cathartic for me.

I think it's very cathartic to have someone to talk to.

I think all my anger and hate comes out in the music; that should be the way you channel these things. It's like, I don't go out and beat people up, I do it with my guitar.

I just wanted to make music, because it's how I get stuff off my chest. I want it to always feel like my escape.

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

Debemos permitir que nos golpee el rayo del dolor. No lo olvides: este dolor es útil, el relámpago ilumina.

The great sadness cleansed me of the foul elements that had accumulated in my heart and body.

Aristotle's account of the Katharsis of tragedy was a philosophic presentation of a truth that Homo religiosus had always understood intuitively: a symbolic, mythical or ritual presentation of events that would be unendurable in daily life can redeem and transform them into something pure and even pleasurable.

Andy opened her mouth and screamed as loud as she could. It felt good, but she couldn't scream for the rest of her life.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

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.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

I write to shed my sacred sorrows.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.