Catharsis famous quotes

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

#Character #Principles #Catharsis

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.
-- Anne-Marie Duff

#Thinking #Catharsis #Band

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
-- Aristotle

#Fear #Tragedy #Catharsis

When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.
-- Danielle Steel

#Writing #One Day #Catharsis

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

#Thinking #Experience #Catharsis

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

#Important #Catharsis

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.
-- Greg Bryk

#Thinking #The End Of The Day #Catharsis

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.
-- Joan Didion

#Writing #Catharsis

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

#Moving Forward #Catharsis #Goes On

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

#Writing #Catharsis #Kind

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
-- Sarah Ruhl

#Childhood #Catharsis #Wounds

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

#Catharsis #Sitting #Empires

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.
-- Sasa Stanisic

#Catharsis #Stories #Want

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'
-- Tim Sandlin

#Mean #Greek #Catharsis

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.
-- Bruce Gilden

#Photography #Catharsis #Alive