Common Quote by Anna Maxted

I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential.

— Yossi Ghinsberg

Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you…

— Bessel van der Kolk

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

— Lenore Terr

“The traumatic event, although real, took place outside the parameters of “normal” reality, such as causality, sequence, place, and time. The trauma is thus…

— Dori Laub

“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 stories are no more valid or noble than stories of love and heroism. Trauma stories are like black holes in space. They suck…

— Annette Vaillancourt

I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while…

— Moby

“Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax and go…

— Laura Wiess

For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.

— Ariel Levy

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma…

— Matana Roberts

Trauma through others deeds can be devastating but it's how we respond to these challenges that allows us to discover our true selves.

— Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell

When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you…

— Patrisse Cullors