Quotes About Catharsis

Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.

I had always zipped through that part of the speech as if I had somehow managed to be invulnerable to the fantasy, as if I had somehow managed to escape from or rise above it simply as a result of having figured it out. 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.

Sometimes it's all you can do," he murmured. "Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out." "Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run.

There's no law saying I can't bitch about it first.

I enjoy a good brood myself, though most often I prefer just punching something and being done with it.

He told you not to cry, but tears keep leaking out of your eyes. And you're glad, because those tears belong to you. They're yours. Your tears. He can't have them. He can't touch them. They're all yours. (182)

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't think of it when it's relevant. Seriously, just punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.

Rip yourself open. Tell me my life story before I die. Sew yourself shut.

Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

If humor comes from anything, it arises from an immense feeling of relief.

I'd like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It's conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I'd love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.

A big segment of the storytelling is about personal suffering. There's the stink of catharsis. Of melodrama and memoir. A writer friend refers to this school as "the-sun-is-shining-the-birds-are-singing-and-my-father-is-on-top-of-me-again" literature.

My books are my confessions.

That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed. Pg. 109

Why do you watch TV shows — and keep watching them — if you don't like them? Terence asked. Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.

Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel not so terrible about my various emotional issues.

Lo expulsé del organismo con mis lágrimas!».

Killing these assholes was the most therapeutic thing he'd ever done in his life. It was more effective than a decade of psychotherapy.

Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Cry freely and let your tears fall for a life without tears is like a life without heartache weaking and painless