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  • 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.

    Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins
  • 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.

    Pain   People   Childhood  
  • This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

    Life   Catharsis   Clams  
    Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

  • It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictional) experiences and stories lead to something banal or completely uninteresting.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

    Beauty   Song   Art  
  • "Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

    Running   Song   Night  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the most radical and intransigent manner. This is what Alain Badiou has just done in Almagestes, where he puts language on trial with an intention of cleansing, of catharsis.

    Done   Trials   Way  
  • I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.

    Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com
  • Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don't mean escape. You don't escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. Mon Dieu, I'm glad I have them. When I find myself in a situation in which I'd rather not be - because of the perculiar circumstances of my life - I have this outlet. You may think me tres superieure but I'm not really, I am just what I am and live the way I like."

    Pain   Book   Mean  
    Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”
  • Art is a form of catharsis.

    Art   Catharsis   Form  
    Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”
  • Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.

    Pain   Real   Grief  
  • The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

    Thinking   Rocks   People  
  • It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

    Art   Angel   Long Ago  
  • 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 try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

    Play   People   Childhood  
  • You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else and the other may be more harmful. Don't go on escaping problems, face them. The problem is that you are tense, so the goal should be how to be non-tense, not, smoking or not smoking. Meditate. Relax your tensions without any object into the sky, allow catharsis to happen. When you are non-tense these things will become absurd, foolish, and they will drop. Food will change, your styles of living will change.

    Escaping   Sky   Goal  
  • As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

    Art   Years   Humanity  
    "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 50), 1986.
  • Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

    Moving   Catharsis   Doe  
    Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.162, A&C Black
  • There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

    Source: collider.com
  • Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • Music is catharsis for me.

  • We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining.

    Hero   Journey   Thinking  
    "'Into the Woods' Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine and James Corden on Love and Dating". Q&A from the New York press conference., cinemovie.tv. December 24, 2014.
  • I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene.

    Source: collider.com
  • 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 always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.

  • Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

    Art   Emotional   Effort  
  • My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

    Pain   Catharsis   World  
    Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan
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