Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

I talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

Of course I get hurt.

Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

I think thoughts in my head bounce around in my skull and, if they keep bouncing around in my skull, they get worse and worse. When they come out of my mouth, they make people happy.

Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

I talk to friends who get their feelings hurt when they read Twitter mentions. I have an amazing solution - don't read Twitter mentions.

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.

Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.