Quotes About Catharsis

To speak of sorrow works upon it moves it from its crouched place barring the way to and from the soul's hall.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

I quickly imagined that I could reach my hand into my chest, yank out that awful feeling, place it on an invisibl ecloud of air right in front of me, then push it away. Push it away

I knew exactly what you'd done. I know that feelings. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can't stay like you are for another second, or you're going to explode.

Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.

sometimes it feels good to smack the hell out of something.

Write (this includes any thoughts I don't want to have—write them out fast so they're out of me and on the paper).

You have you let the tears come," she always says. "Because if you don't, they'll come out eventually – maybe not as tears, but as anger or something else.

The world isn't made a better place by the unburdening of a heart.

I couldn't not write. Sometimes I ask myself, How do people get through life without writing? I write to calm anxiety, to process pain. Writing to me is reflection.

I remember just weeping my way through the 'Friday Night Lights' finale with my best friend and just being so happy all the way through because it was so beautiful.

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but I found out in very practical ways that you are accountable for everything you say. Everything you write, everything you do becomes not only your identity but your world resonates with it.

It's pretty cathartic for me to write a letter to God and tell him what I'm praying for that day or what I'm going through emotionally.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.

I like playing the bad guys. It's a way of exercising and exorcising my own personal demons.

I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It's an event. It's supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n' roll show. I still kind of feel like I'm a rock n' roll musician anyway.

Cinema, like music, should wash away the dust of everyday life.

Until I started owning the grief and rage from my childhood, the sadness and hurt and fear that I had denied all of my life, I was incapable of being honest with myself, incapable of knowing who I Truly was.