Traumatic Quotes

118 quotes by 108 authors

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels… — Russell Brand
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions… — Warren Buffett
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
When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge… — Rudy Giuliani
People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the… — Elayne Boosler
I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take… — Joni Mitchell
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of… — George Soros
I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious,… — Michael C. Hall
There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden… — Sara Blakely
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something… — Warren G. Bennis
It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is… — Dan Barker
There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning. — Milton H. Erickson
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. — James Hillman
Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic! — Rachel Stevens
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon
I don't have concussion problems. I have got a problem with people giving me traumatic blows to the head, that's what I have got a… — Unknown Author
I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It… — Rose McGowan
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding… — Eric Fischl
For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment. — Judith Lewis Herman

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