Quiet people Quote by Laura Wiess

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”

— Sue Johnson

“So much of what we do each day is a diversion from what our lives are really about. A traumatic event is like a…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“I've come to the conclusion that there are two types of people. The fucked up good and the fucked up bad. You see, everybody's…

— Seth

“Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.”

— Paul Levy

“You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others…

— Jeanne McElvaney

“There’s a reason people isolate themselves when they’re suffering. It can be painful to talk about it, painful to hear the concern in our…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try…

— Carolyn Spring

“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.”

— Zachary Anderegg

“Some people, after losing someone, they become scared of being alone. They get clingy, settle down, try to hold onto everything in their life.…

— Jeremy Bates

“We go through so much trauma in this world. At least we get to die.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg