Quotes About Catharsis

Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least to a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...

Hüznü aÅŸman?n tek yolu onu tüketmektir (...)

Maybe it's true that you can use up all of your tears...It was nice to think about, because what I wanted was to be empty.

The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.

You have to talk about the things that cause you pain.

hay cosas, palabras, que uno lleva mordidas adentro y las lleva toda la vida, hasta que una noche siente que debe escribirlas, decírselas a alguien, porque si no las dice van a seguir ahí, doliendo, clavadas para siempre en la vergüenza.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

And that's where I think vulnerability comes in - the fact that we're figuring out that there is strength in actually being vulnerable to one another, there is strength to letting go of grief, or at least processing grief more helpfully than we've necessary seen, particularly in these corseted upper class dramas before.

My thing has always been, I've never been very open and vulnerable with people, so the minute I got this dog, everything changed. It just opened me up and made me more loving... It's all because of him... He's made me a better person... I can tell people what I feel now. I can cry in front of people sometimes.

Acting is therapeutic. I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to be as a writer.

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.

Being vulnerable was difficult for me at first because I've said things in my songs about how I felt that I never told anybody.

I can be more real and more vulnerable when I sing.

'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

I used to bottle things up.

When I have a lot of emotion going on, I'll write. I write letters to my family, my boyfriend, anyone I'm trying to get my point across to. It's easier for me to express myself.

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.