Trauma Quotes

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do. (Alex Berenson)
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is. View quote
Neil Strauss
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. View quote
Robin Williams
People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing. View quote
Jamie Lee Curtis
Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live. View quote
James Frey
We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease. View quote
Radhanath Swami
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. View quote
Marianne Williamson
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me. View quote
Sting (musician)
Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods. View quote
Peter A. Levine
Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it. (Peter A. Levine)
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off. View quote
Peter Straub
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are? View quote
Rachel Kushner
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. View quote
Helen Fisher
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. View quote
Bruce D. Perry
Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not? View quote
J.R. Ward
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards. View quote
Jessica Stern
Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma. View quote
Eve Ensler
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 aristocrats. View quote
Diane Arbus
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. View quote
T.D. Jakes
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot... or cosmic rays or a power ring... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair. (Mark Millar)
As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow. View quote
Allyson Schwartz
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss. View quote
Anne Grant
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment thats 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math. View quote
Denise Juneau
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. View quote
Hugh Mackay