Trauma Quotes

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.