Catharsis Quotes - Page 2

• Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Powerful, War, Mind

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• Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

  Desmond Tutu

  Purpose, Return, Called By God

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

  Luciano Berio

  Hands, People, Darkness

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• I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

  Joan Didion

  Writing

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• Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

  Mindy Kaling

  Art, People, Laughing

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

  Timothy Levitch

  Sitting, Empires, Silhouettes

  "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.

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• I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.

  Peter Mullan

  Jobs, Guy, The End Of The Day

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• Music is catharsis for me.

  Sara Bareilles

  Music Is

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Life, Clams, Projects

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric, and I'm so grateful for that in moments of pain or of suffering - that I have this means of channeling it; it's really amazing. My band as well - having them around and being able to jump on stage and bond together and share that energy is really uplifting as well.

  Kimbra

  Uplifting, Pain, Grateful

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day, since we're taking other people's shekels to do it, and their work is being able to make a return out of it, it forces you to consider the fact that you're doing it for other people. The whole construct is built around the assumption that it's going to get shared, and that someone else is going to find value in it - entertainment, catharsis, enlightenment, or whatever.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, People, The End Of The Day

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• 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.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Play, People, Childhood

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• I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

  Edward Albee

  Play, Should, Feels

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Scott Cohen

  Struggle, Artist, Thinking

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Childhood, Wounds

  "Surreal Life". Interview with John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• 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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Beauty, Song, Art

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• Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

  Khaled Hosseini

  Moving, Goes On, Ends

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• When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.

  Michael Stipe

  Writing, Thinking, Joy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because it's so rare that we get to. We're told to forgive - I don't want to! I don't want to forgive my abuser! I don't care to and I don't like that assumption that forgiveness makes me a better person. It's not authentic to me, my feelings and what I need. But everyone has their own way.

  Margaret Cho

  Feelings, Forgiving, Needs

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

  Greg Bryk

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Revelations

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Emotional, Effort

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• Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.

  Donald O'Connor

  Moving, Dancing, Tunes

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• 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."

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Pain, Book, Mean

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• 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.

  David Schwimmer

  Emotional, Interesting, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Chris Pine

  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.

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