Trauma Quotes

There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

There are people that damage you for life. The day they walked into your life will forever be a turning point you will use to label and count your years with... Your own BC and AD.

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.

Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.

I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.

To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.

The war never leaves.

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.

She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.

And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there’s a memory for them to happen in …

We will remember the hurt, the injustice, and the trauma, but we can forgive the sinner.

There always seemed to be a better way, except when it came to people. Once broken, people couldn't be repaired.

The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.

Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.

SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.

Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.

I wanted to peel myself off of me.

Bitter truths have the power to expect backups if they are shared at all.

Bitter truths have the need to expect backups if they are shared at all.

As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.

Whatever happens to you, once you have hope you will survive.

Meadow's Waltz...the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began...

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

Music, brings the soul alive.Music promotes wellness and sound mind.

It is not so easy as running and not running.

Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.

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

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

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.

We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.

I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make it always so?

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...