Life Quote by Amélie Nothomb

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”

— Sue Johnson

“Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life. Trauma…

— Holly Bourne

“Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.”

— Paul Levy

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very…

— Bora Chung

“The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.”

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.”

— Zachary Anderegg

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“My demise resulted from a terror-one of my own creation.I was capable of conjuring up the most horrifying feelings of bone chilling fear,hopelessness,and guilt.”

— Lisa-Scarlett Cruji

“The traumatized soul finds no rest in conditions of peace. It’s forever questing for violence, for action, for the same combination of factors which…

— Matthew S. Williams

“..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of the dignity…

— Robertson Davies

“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful…

— Jessica Stern