Quotes About Catharsis

It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.

It's all shit," he had muttered in English, and felt better.

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

Shows are my saving grace. In between actual jobs, the only thing that keeps me sane is the knowledge that I can go up on stages.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

Clouds open up into rain, You too should release your pain.

Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.

I tell you now, better to spit it all out, cry a hundred days over this matter, an entire year, than ruin your life over it. You must acknowledge it now, so that it has no power over you. I do not assume to know what you are going through, but I do know something about hate.

Should a warrior feel the need to be comforted, he simply chooses anyone or anything, be it friend, dog, or mountain, to whom he expresses his innermost feelings. It does not matter to the warrior if he is not answered, or if he is not heard, because he is not seeking to be understood or helped - by talking he is merely releasing the pressure of his battle.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?

My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures—it was cathartic for me to look at them, but I could imagine it might have been hell to make them (I was cheered / when I came first to know / that there were flowers also / in hell). No, I answered—how was it for you to read it? Aristotle, in his Poetics, never promised catharsis for the makers of art, only for the audience.

he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in him and press up hard against it...

I've spent nearly thirty years listening to people sing about broken hearts, has it helped me any? Has it fuck.

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

I think you often have that sense when you write-that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.