Quotes About Catharsis

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.

My whole act is confession.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

Lewis could feel something swelling inside him, at his sinuses and in his chest. He had worked hard to keep this ghost at bay, but now it was pressing in, coming to claim its dues. The tears were coming, and he had to swallow to hold them. He stood up.

He's got a good, righteous head of steam up, and I envy him this. He's saying things that friendship has kept him from saying for twenty years, and their release at this late date is orgasmic. Asking him to stop would be like asking him to pull out.

She was just having a good cry all to herself.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

Poetry Saved Me

Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

Dicen que con llorar nada se arregla pero eso no es verdad. Llorar es hacer algo aunque ese algo no sirva más que para quitarnos la sensacion insoportable de no hacer nada.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books...

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

My hopes was that by me writing my demons out, I'd be conquering one of the most important steps… admittance.

I write because I want to give strength to myself

Tears water the eyes when they have been dry for too long.

If you can't talk about, write about it!