Quotes About Catharsis

Now I think pain loses its power when we share it.

pain loses its power when we share it.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

After she had cried, she felt at once hollow and… better, as if the salt of all her unshed tears had been poisoning her, and now she was cleansed.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

After all, the only thing that hurts more than tears shed is tears unshed.

Maybe when you put tears away uncried, everything you cry about from that day on contains a little of those tears.

Maybe when you put tears away uncried, everything you cry about from that day on contains a little of those tears. Whether you wanted them released or not.

You can only hold back tears for just so long.

I think anger is a normal human emotion. And I think people getting in touch with their emotions is good. I think people tend to bury their emotions because they don't want to feel them. And I think we can't heal those emotions until we let them come out into the light." "So

The trouble with weeping was that once begun, it became almost impossible to stop.

As we shall see below, without that tinge of moral remorse, however, there would have been no catharsis, and therefore no surviving culture.

It is when we ask about the nature of this catharsis that we discover that culture itself represents something like the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

You have a good cry, lovey, you'll feel better afterwards. You did feel better afterwards, but as if you'd conned yourself, fobbed yourself off.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

Tears are the safety-valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on.

When you allow the tears to flow out, you're allowing relief and hope and faith and all sorts of good things to come in.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Okay, so I wasn't entirely sure what it was or what I'd do about it if she did, but it felt good to say it.

And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up. All of it, the literal and the fanciful.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.