Quotes About Catharsis Aristotle

#1. Catharsis. Revenge cleanses. Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes. It's a frightening thought that we fulfil the soul's innermost desire through the tragedy of revenge, isn't it.

Jo Nesbo

#2. I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

John Waters

#3. 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.

#4. A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.

Josh Radnor

#5. I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

Bill Burr

#6. When we're in love, we may resent it, but we certainly miss love once it's gone.

Naguib Mahfouz

#7. but I so often forget what I know! QUARANTINE

August Strindberg

#8. Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere - a detective raises the roof, figuratively.

Lucy Sussex

#9. I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?

Jason Mraz