Quotes About Catharsis

If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time ago.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell everything.

I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

In the Psalms, we see that he holds nothing back, freely pouring out his fears, despair, anger, and shame.

Bu dolgunlukla beraber ayn? ?iddetle bir bo?alma ihtiyac? duyuyordu: A?lamak, kat?la kat?la a?lamak, a?lad?kça sarho? olarak ve kendini kaybederek ve h?çk?rarak ve h?çk?r?klar?n?n sesini duyarak ve kat?larak ve kat?ld?kça kendini toplayarak ve kendini toplad?kça yeniden kat?larak a?lamak.

The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they were intimately about me – family tales, parental exploits – sometimes they became horrific stories sprinkled with torture, death, and reunion: crazy games and tear-soaked sagas.

Es una cosa terrible enterrar algo dentro de ti y nunca dejarlo salir. Es mejor hacerle frente, para gritarlo y gritarlo y para llorar y dejarlo salir. Para ambas. No es bueno guardar las cosas en una botella, porque cuando la botella se llene, puede explotar como un volcán.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.

Back in the day, I was afraid to speak out. When I get music behind me, it feels like I can soothe the hurt and put it in vocals and say it to the room the way I feel it.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

I've never been shown how to get rid of my anger. I think I do it through my music.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.