Cathartic Quotes

“In the beginning of his sleep, he cried out, "Flag!"
It was not his own voice that called. It was a boy's voice. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Your diary should be a nepenthe.”
― Joe Dunthorne

“But what was excruciating at first turned cathartic the more he talked. In telling his story, he discovered that he had developed definite ideas about his own motives and decisions. These ideas seemed to have formed in the ether of emotions and dreams, that wooly fog that lay outside the footlights of the conscious mind. They were not large revelations, but were rather like the little epiphanies one suffers and enjoys over a morning cup of tea.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

“Pulsating and bubbly
Was the gait of my poetry,
And now and then
It would twirl and pirouette
Making me feel
On cloud nine!”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Butterflies of Hope

“Don't bottle up your emotions, let them go.

Release is cathartic”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“He sat there and read in silence, in pure adulterated silence and he found it strangely cathartic. He had read this book before and knew it had a happy ending. The sort of ending that makes a man believe there is still some good to be found in this world. Ewald needed to believe in good because he could feel it fading within himself”
― J.R. Potts, Visitor on The Mountain

“When you turn into
A dark, scary night,
Poetry becomes a star
Shining on your chest!”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Garden of Fragility

“Sometimes, poetry oozes out as blood
From the wounds that suddenly appear
On the unblemished skin
And leaves you numb.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Beneath the dead skin