Quotes About Catharsis

I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

Tulisan ini takkan membantuku menemukannya. Tapi dengan menulis, aku merasa lebih baik, bukan, bukan hanya lebih baik, tapi puas.

It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.

A veces, para exorcizar los demonios de un recuerdo es necesario contarlo como un cuento

On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows.

Le dije, en resumen, todas las locuras que nunca le hubiera dicho si pudiera oírme y que nunca he vuelto a decir a ninguna mujer.

Me eché a llorar sin control, y ese torrente de lágrimas me fue lavando por dentro hasta que nada quedó del rencor y la culpa y los malos recuerdos.

My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish.

There they could weep at leisure, unburdening themselves of their own troubles as they wept for someone else's death.

Open confession is good for the soul.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water.

I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can't. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it with an audience. It's incredibly cathartic.

If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in real slow. I wanted it to hurt; wanted my outside to feel as bad as my inside. I sat there a long time watching my skin turn redder and redder... Finally my insides was as fiery as my skin. I liked the burn and hoped it took everything I'd been wishing for and turned it to ashes.

Getting to play characters so unlike myself is cathartic.

burst into tears.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.