Quotes About Catharsis

Sometimes crying is just one of the best way to let out your emotions you have been holding back for too long.

Let your tears flow and where they go, let your sorrows follow.

Somedays you just need to cry for all the days you have to pretend nothing is wrong.

Allow yourself to really feel your feelings. It's okay to bare your soul, break down or cry. Because through that breakdown comes your breakthrough.

Tears release the pain that words cannot express and the soul can't bare.

Crying is like breathing. The more you hold it in, the more you let out.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Once I did a film like 'Verna,' which was emotionally draining, I knew I needed to do something lighter and entertaining.

I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.

Tears can be good. They can cleanse us form our misery.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

All that mattered was the blood. She had to bleed out the badness, bleed until she could breathe again.

We opened our mouths and let the stories that had burned nearly to ash in our bellies finally live outside of us.

It felt good, really good, just to scream finally. I felt like I was singing a hit single. But in Hell.

To feel better, women talk about past problems, future problems, potential problems, even problems that have no solutions. The more talk and exploration, the better they feel. This is the way women operate. To expect otherwise is to deny a woman her sense of self.

Sam, who had not had the chance to bitch and yell at them for two weeks, unloaded in the locker room and everyone felt better.

This is the way confessing works—once you start, you can't stop.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

Emotional troubles are like landfill. Get them outside, and the air disintegrates them.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.