Trauma Quotes · Page 8

“I face my trauma because I believe in breaking cycles, not repeating them.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

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

— Chath Piersath

“Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.”

— Nikita Gill

People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.

— Jennifer Ashton

“Partake not in the drama your trauma causes.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not? - Wrath”

— J.R. Ward

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll…

— Bernice King

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

— John McLaughlin

Any character that has a reference or baggage or emotional trauma, I personally feel, leaves an impact.

— Mohit Raina

I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for…

— Sloane Crosley

“My sister don't talk much. When she does, it's only to me, in moth-winged whispers, and only when we're alone.”

— Emily Murdoch

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they…

— Anna Maxted

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

— Alexander Cannon

Maybe it's no wonder many people think there's a mental health crisis in Derry, something experts recognise as linked to Troubles-related trauma.

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

“When we cannot connect something we see or hear to something we have seen or heard before, or when the words will…

— Meg Jay

“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and…

— Stefan Molyneux

We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and…

— Heidi Julavits

“She knew she couldn’t escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never…

— Cheyenne McCray

“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings,…

— Janina Fisher

Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the…

— Sebastian Junger

[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie…

— Tony Taccone

“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory.…

— Dori Laub

“Kaffman (2009) described childhood victimization as a "silent epidemic", and Finkelhor, Turner, Ormrod, and Hamby (2010) reported that children are the most…

— Christine A. Courtois

pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is…

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary conditions. People who actively do something…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It…

— Gabrielle Zevin

There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when…

— Mike Ness

I would just love to see more shows that highlight positivity rather than trauma of the Black experience.

— Judi Love

“It’s like she’s floating inside of herself, in the dark, and whatever hasn’t already emptied inside her is emptying now...”

— Daniel Abbott

A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.

— Hannah Gadsby

As a European from a different, younger generation, the trauma that was Nixon's presidency never really had a hold over me. For…

— Peter Morgan

“I think I broke Kerri,” she said. “Go fix her,” Al commanded, unfazed. “We’ve got enough broken parts.”

— Edgar Cantero

“I think a look at suffering humanity would lead to the realization that trauma is perhaps the greatest mission field of the…

— Diane Mandt Langberg

“Fleeing was not merely a choice, it was a necessity. I left my home, my life, and my safety with a bounty…

— Hagir Elsheikh

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

— Macdougall John

“Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing,"…

— S. Kelley Harrell

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional…

— Sting