Quotes About Catharsis

If I'm writing, at least I don't feel as paralyzed.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

A good cry is like a good rain.... Afterwards everything is washed clean, and for awhile, you can see for miles.

Vomiting isn't bad either, take note. It is, in certain more obvious respects, a show of force. I have always liked this story 'A man holding with one hand to a one-way sign is vomiting into the gutter, another man goes past near him and tells him: "If you only knew how much I agree with you.

Je hasarde une explication : écrire c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Sometimes to deal with your problems you have to let off a little steam.

I became a songwriter not when I composed that perfect couplet, or experienced the right amount of pain. It's when I realized that whatever I wrote, even if it meant gutting myself in front of strangers, letting all those raw emotions come flooding out, making a fool of myself with my own words, was exactly what I always wanted to do with my life.

And so I wept my story into the ocean and the ocean received it.

I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. Or if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself, or to relieve yourself of some great psychic burden, rather than to save or relieve us.

Bah,' said Emerson. 'It relieved my feelings, but it had not the

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

Anger is so constructive.

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.

I think if a movie makes you cry, you probably needed to cry.