Trauma Quotes

“Trauma can have a masking effect.”

— Asa Don Brown

“The war never leaves.”

— Victoria Aveyard

“Flashlight beams danced crazily”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“all the tall mad mountains of her mind”

— Anne Carson

Trauma leads to drama.

— Carol Coopersmith

“trauma of hearing these unearthly noises,”

— Bill Bean

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

— Hunter Biden

Trauma - that violence ripples forever.

— RaMell Ross

“Anxiety, trauma and crisis are necessary catalysts to stimulate self-consciousness.”

— Rollo Tomassi

“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.”

— Anna Funder

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

— Victoria de los Angeles

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

— Bell Hooks

“Triggers take us back To pain, trauma, or anger. Use them to heal self.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

“It's all fun and games until somebody dies.”

— Tom Hobbs - trauma Junkie

When people are in trauma they need the love of food.

— Andi Oliver

“Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.”

— Leslie Jamison

“People don’t always stab you with knives. Sometimes it’s the slow slicing of passive envy.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

“There is not a trace of blood anywhere except here, in my throat, where I am telling you all this.”

— Lê Thi Diem Thúy

“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.”

— Erin Merryn

Childhood trauma is childhood trauma, whether you're a player or a forklift driver. They are the same feelings, and there are the…

— Tony Adams

“It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the…

— A.C. Grayling

Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.'

— Drew Pinsky

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

— Bell Hooks

“Trauma is the great masquerader and participant in many maladies and “dis-eases” that afflict sufferers. It can perhaps be conjectured that unresolved…

— Peter A. Levine

I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people's…

— Chris Murphy

“Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested…

— Gail Sheehy

Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta) Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent…

— Mitch Albom

“Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest…

— Rebecca Rosenblum

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is,…

— Steven Bochco

It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until…

— Kevin Malarkey

“Every painful memory you have which keeps recurring is simply your unconscious mind trying to protect you by reminding you of experiences…

— Roger Roger

“Papuan ancestors never begged for survival. They engineered it. They did not ask the world for permission to exist; they organised their…

— Yamin Kogoya

“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and…

— Judith Spencer

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear…

— Donald Kalsched

In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,…

— John Naisbitt

“The Kinsey staff asked questions of children, learning about sexuality in the family. And other psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, including Benjamin Spock,…

— Cheryl Hersha