Quotes About Venting

So it's hardly surprising that Martha bitched up a storm

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

When I vent to people n I start to get angry. I get to yelling and I don't even realize how loud I'm being.

Being pissed off and not being able to let it out cause apparently sh.. will happen.

Relationships never work when the other person uses social networks as a way to vent instead of addressing you.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out.

I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

Crying is like breathing. The more you hold it in, the more you let out.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

Sam, who had not had the chance to bitch and yell at them for two weeks, unloaded in the locker room and everyone felt better.

Schimpf-los

I can see that you're upset...Maybe you should post about it all over Facebook. That should eliminate any drama.

5. Show the person that you are an ally rather than a threat by listening calmly and empathetically as he vents.

To do that, follow these steps: 1. Say, "Tell me what happened." Venting allows the person to begin moving from blindly striking out (the most primitive response) to feeling emotional (a higher response). The person's screaming or yelling will upset you, but it's far less dangerous than the threat of physical violence—so let it happen.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

He unleashed his sexual frustrations on these women, but they also provided a means of venting his Oedipal anger at the mother figures for rejecting him, so he strangled the life out of them.

W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.