Quotes About Catharsis

Sometimes I'm just like, 'I cannot hold onto this anymore,' and it's time to say something. And at the end of the day, I've just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping

Cryin' is good for the soul. Lets all that poison out of your system.

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.

Expressing anger is necessary.

I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have.

45 But above all, the function of art is catharsis, purification: emotions accumulated in us under the pressure of social restraints, and liable to sudden issue in unsocial and destructive action, are touched off and sluiced away in the harmless form of theatrical excitement; so tragedy, "through pity and fear, effects the proper purgation of these emotions.

Weeping is not bad. It clears out the heart, making space in it for growth.

You must first feel as bad as you're feeling and move your emotions of anger and hurt out of your body. You do this by feeling them fully and expressing them in a safe way.

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

il a commencé à sortir tout un paquet de grandes phrases qui résonnaient sous la voûte, et qui semblaient n'avoir ni queue ni tête, sauf qu'elles avaient bien la queue et la tête et qu'elles voulaient dire toute la colère et la tristesse qu'Oscar avait à l'intérieur de lui […].

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

Getting rid of you is a good thing, that's why I don't write you back I'm vomiting every memory from my system

Every day the men around me came to exercise their bodies; I came to exorcise my demons

Worse than useless, I worry e-petitions are detrimental, with their sense of catharsis and mini-activism. Channelling away agitation, giving us the opportunity to show all our Facebook friends just exactly how great we are at being compassionate.

The great thing for me is how Hitchcock uses guilt so well. He implicates the spectator in the character's field, and you really feel it, and there's incredible relief when it comes out right - if it does come out right.

In the past, catharsis was the purification of the passions by fire. Today it is their liquidation by flow.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

The physical aspects of the game, it's probably the highlight for me. It's a way for me to get a lot of anger and stress off of my shoulders.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

When your outlet is taken away from you, when your catharsis is stripped from you and you don't understand why, and you're so disappointed, and you're so blindsided by it, it hurts.