Quotes About Catharsis

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

But coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

Sometimes expressing yourself fully helps to let go faster. So cry, laugh, scream when you need to.

Sometimes it's just easier to tell a stranger than to tell the people you are close to. The freedom of speech is my liberation from solitude and if you should take that negatively or with annoyance then that's on you to look the other way.

If your writing is brutally honest, comes from the heart, beware, it will take its emotional toll. But, it's worth it.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

Seven smirked as he walked back over to me. "I gave you catharsis last night. Twice.

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.

Visit any comedy club, or watch Bridesmaids, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy or Louis CK's routines on YouTube, and you'll realize that Americans pay comedians millions of dollars to talk about things most of them have felt, or thought, but never said in public. In

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

The relief of giving in to destruction.

I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

And it was different because, above all other things, that heavy and painful Book of Regrets had been successfully burnt to dust.

But writing down darkness didn't make me feel dark. I already felt dark. Writing things down brought that inner darkness into external light.

from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Oh, Christ. That's exactly the type of thing that warrants a journal burning.

Does it help?" he asks. "The e-mailing." She nods. "A tiny bit. It's strange. You're writing a letter to someone who's never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

There it was, out at last, and if it seems like nothing very much, I can only say that it took a long time to say it, to be able to say it, and none of the journey was easy.

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.