Domestic violence Quote by Babette Rothschild

“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat and defend…

— Peter A. Levine

“My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.”

— J. Kahele

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes…

— George Orwell

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Iciness enshrouds my body—a foretaste of death’s chill.”

— Peggy Toney Horton

“I look at it this way: the instinctive response to danger—the stress response—consists of fight, flight, or freeze. These three strategies help us survive…

— Christopher K. Germer

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought…

— John le Carre

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

— John Philip Sousa

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you.…

— Nell Scovell

“Every existence contains its primal trauma, an event dividing life into a before and an after, a trauma so great that even the most…

— Amélie Nothomb

“My mind felt numb, like I couldn't really grasp the hurtful things that I had just recently learned. I was well aware that it…

— Courtney Cole