Quotes About Catharsis

Whenever somebody gives up their pride to reveal a truth to others," I told him, "we find it incredibly moving; in fact, we are all so moved that even the cameraman is crying." I hadn't actually looked in the direction of

What happens when you swear?" "Nothing. Sometimes it makes me feel better. Not often. Not unless I can really shout." "Oh. I thought maybe if I swore, God would strike me down." "No," Sunset answered sadly. "It doesn't work that way. It's too bad, isn't it. But sometimes it does help if you shout. Would you like to try it?

Something about writing poetry appears either to attract the wounded or to open new wounds...

This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.

My eyes filled with tears and I wept long and hard, unable, and unwilling, to stop.

It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well. By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, "Honey, I don't know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry," and gives him a lilac-scented embrace.

Who better to confess to than a dying woman?

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.

Sitting there, watching my sister, I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got itout, the story was really all that mattered.

As I spoke, I realized I'd held these words in for so long and so tightly that I felt the space they left empty once released. It was vast enough that I could think of nothing to follow them.

Because rain will wash away everything, if you let it.

What a happiness it would be to cry.

people are no longer interested in analysis. They all prefer catharsis now. They all prefer to say that they are helpless and can't change other people, i.e. the world. Marxism has been replaced by postmodernism. Psychoanalysis has been replaced by twelve-step programs. It was the end of the content.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Surely, tears are incredible and best therapy and remedy for sorrow, grief, and pain that, attack and occupy one's life.

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.

Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.

Es nuestra ira la que nos salva y sin embargo nos resulta casi imposible sacarla y darle coherencia.

Weeping, a powerful physical process that was normally out of the question, became a constant possibility.