Quotes About Catharsis

Writing is a form of therapy… Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation

Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

I suppose the confessional teaches a man to recognize hate.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.' Auden noted: 'Man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep.

Thinking and dreaming of what happened is a far different experience than giving voice to events that haunt you. You cry when you tell someone something. You shake. You get sick. You seek comfort. When you don't speak about it and just think it, you don't fall apart.

Cinema is a medium which makes you forget your worries and present a world which you can never be a part of.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.

I've been making notes of my life, but when it finally came time to write it, it took me back, and I cried many tears. But I also think that it's liberating.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

Sometimes when I'm in the car driving, I scream at the top of my lungs.

Don't be afraid to cry. Everyone needs a good cry sometimes. Sometimes I'll feel it in my throat, like, 'Today I'm going to cry about something stupid,' so just to get it out of the way, I'll watch a sad movie or something, accepting that that's totally fine and feels good.

Ich geh mir mal ein Stück Dreck aus dem Rücken drücken." - Gerlinde

If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

I had not put into words, yet—the worst thing, but I thought that I could say it, if I said it word by word.

Get angry, Elizabeth. Curse him. Yell. But don't keep on grieving like this. Please, love.

In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it's done right.

In terms of cathartic affect, memoir is like therapy, the difference being that in therapy, you pay them. The therapist is the mommy, and you're the baby. In memoir, you're the mommy, and the reader's the baby. And—hopefully—they pay you. ("No man but a blockhead ever wrote for any cause but money," Samuel Johnson said.)

he had discovered, as many others had before him, that only the first cussword is really hard; after that, there's nothing quite like them for relieving one's feelings.