Quotes About Catharsis

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

Art has always been my salvation.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....

We crafted everything that hurt us into art.

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don't do it until you're ready.

But it felt good to cry, to let her shoulders shake, to feel the hot tears on her face, to taste their baby salt, to wipe snot all over the underside of her shirt.

Why do you want to share your suffering? By sharing I will dilute it.

Thanks. SHULGSHULGSPAHHH… Whew. Ah.

The danger is especially apparent if the young person is affected by what has been termed "incomplete mourning"—has, in effect, been unable to achieve the catharsis of grief, and so carries within himself through later years an insufferable burden of which rage and guilt, and not only dammed-up sorrow, are a part, and become the potential seeds of self-destruction. In

running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. And when things look worst, we run the most.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Ahora quiero ver si consigo aprehender lo que me ha sucedido usando palabras. Al usarlas estaré destruyendo un poco lo que sentí, pero es inevitable.

There are three therapeutic words in human lifestyle: smile, laugh and sob.

Das Schreiben zähmt das Gelebte.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

purification was the point of such pain.

Jag skriver inte för att jag tror att jag har något att säga. Jag skriver för att om jag inte gör det känns allt bara värre [karaktärens ord]

No escribo porque tenga algo que contar. Escribo porque si no lo hago, todo empeora mucho más.