Quotes About Catharsis

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

I blurted out, nearly in tears.

podemos sacar provecho de los beneficios que nos brinda la ficción para sanar nuestras emociones, para escribir nuestra nueva historia con toda libertad

I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have.

I cry to let everything out

I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior

Being there was like having a good cry, the clearing of the air after weight has been held.

Ahora que finalmente me he enfrentado a las pesadillas que acosaban mis noches puedo aceptar el fantasma de mi pasado.

Perhaps now that she'd told the story, it would lose its power over her. She hoped she would never have to repeat it to anyone ever again.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Let your tears flow and where they go, let your sorrows follow.

They see an unremittingly sad film, and they think it's depressing, whereas we're fucking enthralled, because the catharsis for us is in witnessing great art, seeing the undiluted truth, in the shared recognition that life is pain.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.