Quotes About Catharsis

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

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.

If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.

We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that his dark words are coming out into the light and yet he is still alive. At once he storms the doorway that has suddenly opened for him in the endless corridor in which he has been bumping around for years; words spill out, cut off, confused, ashamed, squeezing out.

God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.