Trauma Quotes

I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down t...

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the b...

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...

I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I’m disgusting. I can’...

perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poemfrom the last years of her life that begins"I lose my sc...

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. T...

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

I watch what happens below and Iam grateful that I can smell my smell, smell my smell and live while...

 “So how’d you do it? How did you get to where you aren’t scared all the freaking time?”Erin’s smile...

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer fro...

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in...

I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I...

But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the s...

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when on...

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When ...

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I ...

And then it struck him what lay buried far down under the earth on which his feet were so firmly pla...

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those thi...

It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They w...

It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put...

And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy al...

And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secret...

It's the whistling," Laila said to Tariq, "the damn whistling, I hate more than anything" Tariq nodd...

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I rem...

We call them survivors, but once the vampires get you, the person you were dies, like any traumatize...

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that ble...

Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSEThe Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994"Extend...

I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we w...

Do we as a society need people who have emerged from some kind of trauma. And the answer is that we ...

Whatever it was, she knew she would not be blamed for it, she was blameless. But what use had that b...

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being wit...

When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older...

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a ...

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not: we...

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...

In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outsid...

One of Coin's men lays a hand on my arm. Its not an aggressive move, really, but after the arena's I...

... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous thi...