Carlos Castaneda Quotes

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.

When I'm unhappy with something, people know, because I don't want to hold on to it. I'd rather deal immediately with the stuff that bothers me, so using my network - my girlfriends, my husband, my mom - I talk a lot, I vent.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.

I like to have a good cry at a sad film.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.

Music can feel empowering, or it can give a natural emotional voice to something people can't express. This is why it's beautiful.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

I think basketball becomes an outlet for it, an opportunity to get that frustration out and forget about all the problems and things you have going on in your life outside.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

I cry fairly regularly, it's important to let it out.

I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.