Quotes About Catharsis

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.

Whenever you scream there is a lot of mixed feelings of excitement and fear. In fear when you scream, psychologically, you feel relieved.

Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.

Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

You need to distinguish between getting something off your chest that won't help anyone else or saying something because you know you will be hell to live with if you don't. Quite often, this will be beyond your control.

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

So if I see what I will call like a beautiful match, if I watch it at home by myself, I'll have a hard time not in tears watching these matches.

When I feel something, I write it down so I guess technically it's a personal catharsis, but I would really like to help people as I figure myself out.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

He didn't have to maintain his pride or protect his image. I wasn't his parent or his priest, so he had no obligation to confess. I didn't judge him, so he had no reason to be defensive. I didn't expect him to be anyone, so he had no reason to be anyone but himself. He just needed to get those stories out, to purge an evil spirit.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

People obtain psychological release through the simple process of recounting their grievances to an attentive audience.

In wrestling, as on the stage in antiquity, one is not ashamed of one's suffering, one knows how to cry, one has a liking for tears.

By forcefully telling nasty people off, or performing other cathartic acts, you will supposedly stop your aggressive energy from building to harmful levels.