Quotes About Catharsis

People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren't therapy. What do you think these places were? Universities? We didn't go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things. What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself? My advice, go to the theatre, if you want catharsis, please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing.

Have you told anyone?" asked Kara. "Your parents?" "Not yet," said Maddy. "I wanted to finish this first. I had to." "Yeah," said August. "If I had something like that hanging around my gut, I'd want to get it out too. It's like the end of the world." "And the beginning," said Maddy.

Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

I don't want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I'm always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

Shitbucket, hellfire, damnation, and son of a mother bitch, said Rosaleen, laying into each word like it was sweet potatoes on her tongue.

As writer Isak Dinesen put it, "All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them.

In an interview, novelist Alice Walker says, You think you can avoid [pain], but actually you can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing

She didn't say, Come on now, stop your crying, everything's going to be okay, which is the automatic thing people say when they want you to shut up. She said, "It hurts, I know it does. Let it out. Just let it out.

T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.

Pleasure of tragedy is vicarious suicide

el arte es útil, medicinalmente útil, en cuanto suscita y purga emociones peligrosas.

The heaviness of forgiveness descended the moment after I wrote the words.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Never be afraid to say what you feel. It's better to let it out than to bottle it up and let it fester.

Does one write under any other condition than being possessed by abjection, in an indefinite catharsis?

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

I love crying. I pick movies to go see with the intention of crying.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

After the engine had faded away she did not dismount, but sat for a few minutes with her face in her hands, almost as if she was praying. If it was a prayer she was muttering, however, it was one full of all the swear words that Not-Triss had ever heard, and quite a few she had not.