Trauma Quotes

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.

Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.