Trauma Quotes

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.

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

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

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict.

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It’s so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.

I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.

Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?

There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.

It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

We live with the scars we choose.

It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.

We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places

There is life after abuse. This is mine.

Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.