Quotes About Healing

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

To write is to give meaning to suffering.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I started writing to save my life.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

No one is exempt from grief.

Those who sit in the house of grief will someday sit in the garden.

the best way to deal with difficult and painful emotions is to stop trying to fix them and just let myself feel them. When I let myself actually feel my emotions, they tend to pass.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Avec ma main brûlée j'ai le droit maintenant d'écrire des phrases sur la nature du feu.