Quotes About Catharsis

if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing

Get shitfaced, then face the shit.

I've tried breaking things to feel better - and found that it only feels better while things are breaking, not the next moment, when they're broken. It's a release that leads to nowhere.

It is unacceptable to sit in your room alone and scream at your life, but it is perfectly acceptable (albeit not exactly normal) to do it with a good friend on the highway, hearing your voice rise to the rush of the window wind and then hearing it be taken away, left behind in your wake.

mom: my point is that there are times when you just have to let it all out. all of the anger, all of the pain. me: have you thought of talking to someone about this? i mean, i have some pills that might interest you, but i think you're supposed to have a prescription. it's okay - it only takes up an hour of your time for them to diagnose it.

In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.

I gave myself up to my tears. It was as though my head had turned to clear water, it was falling pleasantly away drop by drop; soon nothing would remain.

Write down everything you fear in life. Burn it. Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside yo. —Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road (NOT Maya Angelou, NOT I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (NOT Maya Angelou, NOT I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

Break-up albums are the best kind.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

I'll keep venting my anger through my films.

There are times when I just need to cry.

To be a writer is to gouge out one's mind, heart and soul and splatter them across the page for the world to judge.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to "Write hard and clear about what hurts." It's good advice. But to follow it, you must stop reading.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization.

Playing video games, as funny as it might sound, it's a very important part of our day. Our schedule is so hectic, chaotic, demanding that we need an outlet. We need ways to express ourselves and let our energy out.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.