Quotes About Catharsis

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

To make the wax figures and stick in the pins, it is silly, yes, it is childish, yes—but it does something useful too. You took the hate out of yourself and put it into that little figure. And with the pin and the fire you destroyed—not your stepmother—but the hate you bore her. Afterwards, even before you heard of her death, you felt cleansed, did you not—you felt lighter—happier?

I held my breath for a moment or two, and then I let myself rip.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.

My album, 'No Shame,' will give my fans an extremely real and heartfelt experience of what I have been going through in my personal life.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy.

Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

With 'Guzaarish' I went through a catharsis.

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.

I couldn't carry on straight after doing 'Mother,' it was really hard. Getting my anger out was a catharsis but it was also selfish and indulgent.

There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.