Trauma Quotes

188 quotes by 167 authors

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make… — Alfred Adler
Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. — Graydon Carter
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're… — Diane Arbus
At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being… — Jim Caviezel
Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some… — Anthony Storr
Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing… — Mila Kunis
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't… — Barbara Kingsolver
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax,… — Sven Birkerts
The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect… — Denise Crosby
I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were… — Angela Merkel
At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma,… — Joy Harjo
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for… — Cherrie Moraga
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional… — Jim Stovall
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not… — Christopher Hitchens
Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of… — Kumari Jayawardena
Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all… — Richard E. Besser
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family… — Roberto Cavalli
In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors… — Cheryl Rainfield
You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of… — Andrew Solomon

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