Quotes About Catharsis

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

I always found that really helpful; talking something through and vocalising what's wrong. I've found that internalising things just makes them come up in uglier ways further down the line, so it's definitely something I've tried to maintain throughout my life.

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.

I have let go of ugly things that have happened to me.

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. –Hopi

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

He stood again and cried, not like a baby, but in a way only a grown man can cry, from the bottom of his feet up through his torso and finally through his mouth. When a man wails like that you know it's all the tears that he was never allowed to shed, from Little League disappointment to teenage heartbreak, all the way to whatever injured his spirit just last year.

When a man wails like that you know it's all the tears that he was never allowed to shed, from Little League disappointment to teenage heartbreak, all the way to whatever injured his spirit just last year. As Roy howled, my fingers kept worrying a rough patch of skin beneath my chin, a souvenir of scar tissue. When

When a man wails like that you know it's all the tears that he was never allowed to shed, from Little League disappointment to teenage heartbreak, all the way to whatever injured his spirit just last year.

Everyone comes to music when they are mourning, when they are happy - for anything.

Sometimes, it's hard holding back the truth, how you really feel, and sometimes the best way is let it out and move forward.

Speaking my truth. I think that's the number one thing, man. That's my 2018 mantra. Speak your truth, because you hold all that in, it's going to destroy you.

On certain days, it can get difficult, because acting is about being naked emotionally. There are days when you are feeling empty, but the scene demands you to go through a cathartic experience. That's why I like to know what my schedule for a particular film is beforehand.

Rhonda cried once, but it went on for hours, as if she was shedding every speck of sorrow she'd ever felt.

Sometimes, methinks, a lass just needs to have a proper enraged scream.

Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.

In literature, death was many things—a message, catharsis, retribution

Sometimes a story sneaks up on you, hits you hard and dares you to look away. That was the case with The Nightingale. In

I know you have stuff you need to say, but we're kids so you stay quiet. I thought maybe writing it down would make you feel better.

to herself and wiping tears from her eyes, which turned

The children had been right that writing helped. Words

In literature, death was many things--- a message, catharsis, retribution. Death made you cry, filled you with sadness, but in the best of her books, there was peace, too, satisfaction, a sense of the story ending as it should. In real life, she saw, it wasn't like that. It was sadness opening up inside you, changing how you saw the world.