Quotes About Venting

There's no law saying I can't bitch about it first.

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

SnowAngel: oh, i want to KILL jana!!!! zoegirl: only the sucky thing is, you can't. i don't want you getting on jana's bad side too.

You needed someone to vent to, and I had enough distance from it that it didn't weigh me down. I could commiserate and walk away.

Music is my one opportunity to let out how I'm feeling when I'm not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It's just venting.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

Venting anger may serve to maintain, and even rigidify, the old rules and patterns in a relationship, thus ensuring that change does not occur.

When I'm angry, like, if someone gets me really upset, whatever comes into my head, I scream it.

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.

I just stood there looking from one distorted face to another, listening to this babble of enraged squabbling as the members of the Walls family gave vent to all their years of hurt and anger, each unloading his or her own accumulated grievances and blaming the others for allowing the most fragile one of us to break into pieces.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

If you really want to help your daughter manage her distress, help her see the difference between complaining and venting.

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

Sometimes I like to vent.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.

Israel is stupid for allowing people to vent their anti-Semitism.

So much of what I do is so strictly confidential that it's nice to be able to discuss or vent or laugh about something and not read about it in the newspaper the next day.

I think you have to feel your best by yourself. I do think it's important to have a solid friend that you can turn to, though - one that you can vent to.

Very often, when you get into a conversation that's more of a debate, you'll pick up that the other person is venting at you. And when someone vents at you, it triggers a reaction. You get defensive and vent back.

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

anger creates a sense of power and control in a situation where prior to anger these positive, motivating feelings did not exist. The feelings of control and righteousness that come from anger can motivate you to challenge and change difficult interpersonal and social injustices. [. . .] Anger can provide you with a rest from feelings of vulnerability, and a way of venting tensions and frustrations."189

They made me angry." "He got me upset." "It scared me." "World events are the cause of my anxiety." Actually, it's the exact opposite. The suppressed and repressed feelings seek an outlet and utilize the events as triggers and excuses to vent themselves. We are like pressure-cookers ready to release steam when the opportunity arises. Our triggers are set and ready to go off.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.