Quotes About Catharsis

Laughter is like crying.

What does it mean to forgive someone? It only means that you release the anger, the hatred. It doesn't mean that you're saying it's all right now, or that you've forgotten the wrong. It just means that you've drained the boil. When you touch it, it doesn't hurt as much. That's all.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Therapy elicits odd reactions because, in a way, it's like pornography. Both involve a kind of nudity.

Maybe you can let yourself cry too.

Was it cathartic or a form of self-torture?

Communicate, even when it's uncomfortable and uneasy. One of the best ways to heal is simply getting everything on the inside out in the open.

FREE = Finally Releasing Every Emotion.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.

Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement. One could say things in writing without feeling self-conscious, without feeling shy and ashamed and foolish -- one could even write of the days of young Nelson, smiling a very little as one did so.

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

She wondered what it was about storytelling that made people want it almost as much as food and water, even more so in bad times than good. Movies had never drawn more patrons than during the Great Depression. Book sales often improved in a recession. The need went beyond a mere desire for entertainment and distraction from one's troubles. It was more profound and mysterious than that.

I wept a little. Sometimes I do. I'm not embarrassed by tears. At times like this, tears exorcise emotions that would otherwise haunt me and, by their haunting, embitter me.

I love this idea, Bruno says. Of being broken but finding pleasure in it.

Write naked. That means to write what you would never say. Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can't waste it. Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail.

need to confess anything to anyone. You go." "And why would I go?

I am an avid television watcher.

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.