Trauma Quotes

188 quotes by 165 authors

Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level… — Diane Setterfield
Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta) Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and puppies. Boy Scouts… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't… — Jessica Stern
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the… — Mark Millar
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone… — Stephen Dobyns
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
Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging. — Jhonen Vasquez
This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a… — Lynda Barry
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. — Jim Butcher
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You… — Mitch Albom
Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live. — James Frey
The trauma said, â€˜Donâ€™t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson
I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. — Judith Lewis Herman
Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.-… — J R Ward
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in… — Jeanette Winterson
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. — Arthur Golden
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing… — T.D. Jakes
...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind. — Dan Brown

Who Wrote These Trauma Quotes

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