Quotes about Catharsis
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
— Charles Dickens
We can get angry: it's even healthy to get angry from time to time.
— Pope Francis
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
— Anne Lamott
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
— Rainbow Rowell
Tears can be good. They can cleanse us form our misery.
— DiAnn Mills
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
— St. Basil
Heavens knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
— Charles Dickens
Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.
— Watchman Nee
I do know this: most people, myself included, are at their most vulnerable in a journal. They pour it all out. Sometimes a journal is the only ear that will listen, or at least the only one that you want to talk to.
— Charles Martin
I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.
— Baron Davis
Anger should be expressed. - Any anger that is not coming out, flowing freely, will turn into sadism, power drive, stammering, and other means of torturing.
— Bruce Lee
I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
— Steven Spielberg