African Quote by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You suffer from trauma from the things that you've been through because you come from a poverty-stricken background. There are a lot of us…

— Bugzy Malone

I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.

— Tarana Burke

“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world —…

— Anonymous

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

— Tahar Rahim

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

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when…

— Rege-Jean Page

I believe that I was lucky to have suffered. Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are…

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

— James Frey

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

— Yossi Ghinsberg

“certain incidents do more than just touch our raw spots or “hurt our feelings.” They injure us so deeply that they overturn our world.…

— 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

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

— Joel Grey