Quotes About Catharsis

Writing is the easiest way to escape from the real world.

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.

Confession is good for all of us, but even better for you than for me.

Wilderness remained a place of evil and spiritual catharsis. Any place in which a person feels stripped, lost, or perplexed, might be called a wilderness.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

Write it down, Gio. After dinner go to your room and write down what happened and how you feel about it. Your writing is good--it really is. Just don't run away from the feelings.

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

Rage is a useful emotion. Rage burns away sorrow and disgrace.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

Nu exista boala de care nu ne-ar vindeca o lacrima ce-ar începe sa cînte...

A book should open old wounds, even inflict new ones. A book should be a danger.

want to scream, and sometimes I do. On occasion, I scream as loudly as I can

Could it actually be true that tears help people to heal?

Había sido un día agotador. Pero llorar me había aliviado mucho y pronto me vistió un sueño apacible.

I should probably apologize for how much I swear, but fuck it. I've read that some people think swearing shows a lack of imagination and a limited vocabulary, but sometimes "darn" and "poop" and "oh heck" just don't cut it. Besides, swearing is kind of fun.

Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

When you make a heavy record, there should be a point where you say you don't want to share it, but then maybe you come around.

When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

If I feel sad, I let myself be that. Why should I keep hiding it, lying about it and saying, 'I'll be positive.'

Matt Merton comes back and explains that last week's show on suicide, in which the parents watched a reenactment of their son's suicide, was a healing process for the parents, then shows a video of the parents admitting it was a healing process. (Sea Oak)