“And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The wellness remembers the deep living of the wound, & so is happier than any easy health.” — Taisia Kitaiskaia Copy Share Image
“Your whole picture of the world broke," he said, "and you felt like you had gone mad." "Yes." "And I didn't even… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“...after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“Do normal people do this...? Do they get happy and sad at different times? I could be ok one day and then… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I had no lasting physical trauma nor a psychological one. Yet, it was hard to return to the old path. I found… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest… — Rebecca Rosenblum Copy Share Image
The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
“The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When the traumatic event is the result of an attack by a family member on whom victims depend for economic and other… — Marion F. Solomon Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as… — Sarah E. Olson Copy Share Image
“TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them.… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
“The Crucified is the One most traumatized. He has borne the World Trade Center. He has carried the Iraq war, the destruction… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head? — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Its not breakup that hurts the most, but the trauma that follows. It is waking up and checking your cell for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
Let women write horror. Let women write darkness, let women write trauma, without having to carve out their own trauma to justify… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.” — Cathy Burnham Martin Copy Share Image
“Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
“Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering” — Alice Little Copy Share Image
“If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
