Quotes About Catharsis

Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Because rain will wash away everything, if you let it.

Nothing has to be funny, sometimes I just laugh to unclog my soul.

I'll admit that each time I've seen her I've spilled my guts and felt cleansed. Then I become convinced I never need to see her again.

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

IS IT SO TERRIBLE NOT TO KEEP THE MATTER IN MY HEART, TO GET THE MATTER OUT OF MY HEART, TO EMPTY MY HEART OF THIS MATTER? WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH MY HEART?

write hard & clear about what hurts.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

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

The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. "Fuck." Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal and happy, someone who used words like that, like St. John. I repeated it, over and over until she walked away, wounded. Then, I was glad. And still, I kept repeating it, because that was the only thing that kept me from crying.

Stories about the most difficult things need to provide catharsis, or the reader will stop reading, or go mad.

I was spelling out a message that would allow me to talk to myself and to others. The novel that emerged was about things I could not speak of in life, in some cases literally. I would lie, or I would feel a weight on my chest as if someone was sitting there. But when the novel was done, I could read from it. A prosthetic voice.

Crying is the most primitive mechanism the body has to relieve tension and pain.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.'

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.