Body-memories Quote by Alison Miller

“The killed are dead, the bereaved are traumatized. The trauma may be converted to hatred that may be converted into revenge addiction.”

— Johan Galtung

“Remembering your mistakes more acutely than any minor success. This was the worst. The things that kept you up at night. Tip a waiter…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Some things come with their own punishments.

— Arundhati Roy

“Three months of prison and torture! It’s a terrible ordeal! But for others, it lasts ten years, twenty years! It kills some!” I understood…

— Phakyab RINPOCHE

Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in…

— Arundhati Roy

“Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands…

— Lisa R. Cohen

“In therapy, to meet the needs of traumatized survivors of war and torture, the patient is requested to repeatedly talk about the worst traumatic…

— Alfred Nestor

“it referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like.”

— Don DeLillo

“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the cruelest of punishments.”

— Laura Chouette

“Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of one’s own. They turned pain,…

— Roberto Bolaño

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

— Saint Augustine

“Apart from the moral deformity resulting from the sudden release of mental pressure, there were two other fundamental experiences which threatened to damage the…

— Viktor E. Frankl