Quotes about Catharsis
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
— Aristotle
Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.
— Desmond Tutu
Crying can bring such relief.
— Anne Frank
it's better for unkind words to be down on paper than for Mother to have to carry them around in her heart
— Anne Frank
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived!
— Anne Frank
That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn't have any more tears left.
— Marianne Williamson
Every tragedy falls into two parts, — Complication and Unravelling or Denouement.
— Aristotle
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Writing is a form of therapy… Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation
— Graham Greene
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Sleep - real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby. So deep and warm the bed and the pillow enfolding me, letting me sink into peace, nothingness - my dreams now, after the catharsis of the dark hours, are of young and lovely people doing young, lovely things, the girls I knew once, with big brown eyes, real yellow hair.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep
— Pope Francis