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.
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.
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.
There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
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.
Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).
I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
Art is a form of catharsis.
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word. . . which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'
Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
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.
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.
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.
I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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.
I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.
Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.
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.
