Consciousness Quote by Hosea Ballou

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind…

— Plutarch

“So for those who think abuse survivors can simply logically process their situation and get out of and over the situation easily, think again.…

— Shahida Arabi

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

— Ogden Nash

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.”

— Macdougall John

“Dissociation can be interpreted as an “emergency defense,” or a “shut off mechanism.”[6] According to Allen and Smith,[6] it is understood as an attempt…

— Julie P. Gentile

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

— Ogden Nash

“There’s one more symptom we need to look at before looking at how trauma actually gets into the body and mind and causes long-term…

— Peter A. Levine

“Looking at those gashed bodies, and at the witnesses of the execution, doubled up by grief like snapped reeds, I gradually understood that, beyond…

— W.G. Sebald

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us…

— Susan Pease Banitt

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

— Emile M. Cioran