Quotes About Catharsis

the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...

jouska n. a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head-a crisp analysis, a devastating comeback, a cathartic heart-to-heart-which serves as a kind of psychological batting cage that feels far more satisfying than the small-ball strategies of everyday life.

So I've started writing again. It passes the time. No, I'll be honest, it does more than that. It gets stuff out of my head and heart and puts it on paper. That doesn't mean it's no longer in my head and heart. It's still there. But once I've written about it, seems like there's more room inside me again. More room for other things.

You know what they say about hitting yourself over the head with a hammer, she would tell Mamie. It feels good when you stop.

Besides, it's good to cry. Gets rid of all those bad feelings, takes away some of the despair.

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

He went on to tell me that before the workshop he hadn't cried for years, even when his father died, even when his wife told him she was leaving. "I am so glad to finally feel something." He sighed, touching his heart. "Even if I have to cry every day for a couple of years, it's better than having a frozen heart." Ever

Nothing wrong with you a good roller coaster wouldn't fix.

Sometimes, in the afternoon, if the soaps aren't any good, I'll watch movies about angry, scared women who fight back or teenage girls who suffer but then overcome. There are always shower scenes in them, shots of the women scrubbing their abuse or grief away. I don't understand this. You can't make yourself clean like that, and fresh-scrubbed skin only invites attention.

Feeling is the antithesis of pain...the more pain one feels, the less pain one suffers.

Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.

I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.

You don't want to watch a film for two hours that depresses you or makes you think so much it evokes a negative reaction.

I love reading books that can break my heart.

Through film, I realized that was a safe place for me to play. It was a safe place for me to express myself and explore these things that I was afraid to explore in my real life.

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

Every now and again, you just gotta hit something. Not someone - something.

When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it.

I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

There's never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.

Tension demands release. Unusual tension demands release that can only be described as appalling.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.