Quotes About Catharsis

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I've always used songs and music and songwriting as a way to sort of let feelings go.

In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.

I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be of service, to tell the story, to bring a balm, to soothe, to provide catharsis. You know, not to make our work any more important or less important, but just that there is a great importance to it.

It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.

I write about pain so you know you're not alone. I've felt it too. I'm releasing it... in hope that you will too.

All clichés aside, sometimes a girl just needed to cry in the rain.

to accept the fact that I am rather emotional.

found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut

he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and—as Citra had already discovered—the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut.

He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

Do not ignore it. Fuck it. Cry your heart out. Then fuck it some more.

But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself included. it kept me from being an industrialist. it allowed me to endure some women that most men would never be able to live with. it gave me space, a pause. it helped me to write this.

Writing is also my cat. Writing lets me face it.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable for the reader and the writer.

These words I write keep me from total madness.

As long as personal, violent catharsis masquerades as acts of resistance, the corporate state is secure. Indeed, the corporate state welcomes this violence because violence is a language it can speak with a proficiency and ruthlessness that none of these groups can match.

So my reason for doing drag, at first it was because I wanted to express this thing I had kind of stored deep down inside of me and now that I've let this thing loose, this monster out into the world and I kind of got that out of my system now.

If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.