Catharsis Quotes

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory. - Archie Shepp

There's something about a catharsis that is very important. - Glenn Close

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. - Anne Rice

The park, the woods, represents life. You go down to the memorial and come back up, it represents catharsis. It represents coming from death to life. - Peter Walker

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. - Nathalie Sarraute

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. - Edward Zwick

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

Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happened during pregnancy or delivery, or their child had a high fever. If they find out it is genetic or a birth defect, they have this catharsis of guilt they've carried around for so long. - Marc Williams

It is entirely fitting that victim survivors be heard in the criminal justice system, but a criminal trial is not an occasion for national grief and mourning. We need to separate national catharsis from the criminal justice system, otherwise we have the justice of the mob. - David Bruck