Quotes About Catharsis

Q. Why do you write? A. I have found no other way of getting rid of my thoughts.

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

Dio sa che non dovremmo mai vergognarci delle nostre lacrime, benefiche al pari di pioggia sulla polvere accecante che ricopre i nostri cuori induriti

Heavens knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Reihm wasn't thrilled by the Moon walk that he and his colleagues had worked for years to make possible; he was thrilled by its being over

Writing poetry is letting go— once the words leave your pen they're out of your soul and the therapy has begun.

...psycho-analysis — that is... confession without absolution.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition

What'd you do to them?" Leah asked timidly, not really wanting an answer. "I spared them the pain of visual catharsis." "I don't know what that means," Leah said. "That's all right," Allander said. "Neither do they.

Sometimes you have to let yourself let all of your emotions go.

Sometimes you have to. Let yourself let all of your emotions go.

Perhaps indeed the weights on the scale get balanced and in the fifth act a semblance of catharsis and order is imposed upon the players and we continue our lives and do our best until the day comes when we have to go either gentle or raging into that good night. I suspect the real issue is how we conduct ourselves when the ironies of fate seem more than the soul can bear.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

Sometimes sweat is the best form of therapy.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you'd never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.

For five minutes, neither of us spoke. I stared ahead and watched the seat upholstery go blurry from my tears.