Best Cathartic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“He sat there and read in silence, in pure adulterated silence and he found it strangely cathartic. He had read this book before and knew it had a happy ending. The sort of ending that makes a man believe there is still some good to be found in this world. Ewald needed to believe in good because he could feel it fading within himself”

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Book:Visitor on The Mountain

Source: Visitor on The Mountain

“When you turn into A dark, scary night, Poetry becomes a star Shining on your chest!”

Poetry Stars Poetry Quotes Shine Your Light Shine Darkness To Light Cathartic Neelam Saxena Chandra Quotes

Book:Garden of Fragility

Source: Garden of Fragility

“Don't bottle up your emotions, let them go. Release is cathartic”

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Author:Henry Joseph-Grant

“In the beginning of his sleep, he cried out, "Flag!" It was not his own voice that called. It was a boy's voice. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”

Growing Up Cathartic

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

Young Girl Acting Cathartic

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

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

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Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.”

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Author:Winston Graham

“There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.”

Loss Health Absolutes Cathartic

Author:Robert Pinsky

“The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.”

Strange Painting Months Intense Cathartic

Author:Oliver Jeffers

“There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.”

Hours Rooms Ten Spending Editing Swearing Cathartic

Author:Liev Schreiber

“Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.”

Has Beens Past Political Effects Danger Medical All Time Reform Paradox Pregnant Profitable Quacks Cathartic

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.”

People Ifs Trying Ends Moments Character Shows Hurt Violence Involved Cost Glory Impact Meant To Be Entertaining Protagonists Cathartic

Author:Charlie Huston

“Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.”

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Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.”

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Author:Jim Beaver

“For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I'll feel so much better afterwards.”

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Author:Bob Harper

“It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.”

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Author:Ed Helms

“I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.”

Joy Humanity My Own Imagine Calling Singing Satisfying Cathartic

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.”

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Author:Trent Reznor

“I would be lying, if I said that sometimes it is just a job that you show up for because you're getting paid, and that's important, too. But, if you can be in a state of mind where you enjoy your job, whether it's just a job, or it's actually cathartic for you, or it's something personal. I think it would be much easier to be content with doing a good job.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Said Important Sometimes States Shows Would Be Jobs Lying Enjoy Easier Paid State Of Mind Good Job Cathartic

Author:Julianne Moore

“We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.”

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Author:Danny Boyle

“I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.”

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Author:Adam Croasdell

“I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.”

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Author:Cassandra Clare

“No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.”

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Author:Jose Parla

“The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.”

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Author:Scott Cohen

“I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music.”

People Feels Play Interesting Nice Balance Pops Pop Music Cathartic

Author:Max Bemis

“Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.”

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Author:Gary Dell'Abate

“Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.”

Past Beautiful Film My Own Months Painful Shooting Heartache Guts Cathartic

Author:Leslye Headland

“It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.”

People Ifs Important Universe Tough Empowering Cosmos Tough Times Cathartic

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.”

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Author:Paul Bettany

“Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I think there's something cathartic about having kids live through their fears through a book or any kind of story.”

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Author:Jane Levy

“... laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex.”

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Book:The Saving Graces: A Novel

Source: The Saving Graces: A Novel

“We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.”

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Author:David Draiman

“Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.”

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Author:Mark Hoppus

“It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but it's less cathartic to me than it is illuminating and helping me navigate my own feelings.”

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Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.”

Song Emotion Songwriting Translate Cathartic

Author:Antoniette Costa

“There's often times a big difference between what you actually thought/felt in a situation and what you think you thought/felt. You have to do a lot of work to make your thoughts/feelings possible to be understood by other people. It's very draining, though also cathartic.”

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Author:Marie Calloway

“Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There are a few cathartic processes I've alternated randomly. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.”

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Author:Brendan Dooling

“At the age of 50, I did "Celebrity Fit Club" and I had to get on a scale and be weighed in front of everyone. I felt like I was naked and for the first time, there was nowhere to hide. I felt like I could finally be myself. It was really cathartic, and I realized I could share my mistakes. I could tell my story and not be ashamed, and show others with these same problems that they aren't alone.”

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Author:Maureen McCormick

“I suppose is very cathartic to do a show to the masses and you get to make magic in a manner that you can't do in regular life, but I suppose that self esteem effect is one of the most powerful.”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.”

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Author:Sarah Barthel

“I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.”

Writing Photography Cathartic

Author:Dan Payne

“I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience, is something that definitely has helped my life be worthwhile and better.”

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Author:Karla Souza

“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.”

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Author:Tim McGraw

“For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.”

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Author:Finn Jones

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