Trauma Quotes

188 quotes by 165 authors

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million… — Allyson Schwartz
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way… — Steven Seagal
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last… — Sting
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself. — Taylor Swift
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect… — Iyanla Vanzant
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found… — Ricky Williams
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's… — Helen Fisher
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma. — Tucker Max
[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both… — Denis Johnson
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected… — Sigmund Freud
...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the… — Anna Maxted
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my… — Camille Paglia
The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy… — Chuck Palahniuk
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather… — Heidi Julavits
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. — Jodi Picoult
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a… — Gabrielle Zevin
A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash… — Zadie Smith
Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not? — J R Ward

Who Wrote These Trauma Quotes

165 authors contributed a total of 188 Trauma Quotes, led by these top contributors: