Cathartic Quotes

• I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

  Cary Elwes

  Fun, Writing

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 26, 2004.

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• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  Ville Valo

  Song, Drug, Everyday

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• Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

  Robin Williams

  Way, Comedy, Trauma

  "Robin Williams on Returning to TV, Getting Sober, and Downsizing in His 60s". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Emotional, Abuse

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.237, Transaction Publishers

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• I do find acting cathartic.

  Francesca Annis

  Acting

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• Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Character, Exercise

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• I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Song, Art, Anger

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• Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Thinking, Sight

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• Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
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  John Milton

  Jealousy, Negative, Emotion

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• Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Girl, Acting, Young

  "Keck's Exclusives: Ellen Pompeo Talks Grey's Anatomy Season 9". Interview with William Keck, www.tvguide.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

  Brian Molko

  Writing, Honest, Songwriting

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• There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

  Dave Chappelle

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• Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news.

  George Carlin

  Valentine, Thinking, Order

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

  Tim McGraw

  Song, Artist, Singing

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

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• Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teacher, Believe, Healing

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Moral, Great Art

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• For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

  Steve Kazee

  Song, Passion, Writing

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Kings, Indulge In, Errors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tart, cathartic virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Tarts

  On Plutarch's Lives, in 'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Brother, Nice, Fall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, Ideas, Cracks

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• And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Writing, People, Singing

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• Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

  Bell Hooks

  Stress, Commitment, White

  "Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

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• Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.

  Lisi Harrison

  Crush, Girl, Flirting

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• The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

  Oliver Sacks

  Blessing, Grace, Stealing

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.239, Pan Macmillan

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