Trauma Quotes

"We all got nightmares, but mine are the ones I live" "Sometimes you need to be activated in some way and sometimes that requires some kind of traumatic experience" "Any relationship I've ever been in, any heartbreak, has been used by one incredible writer to write a new thing about terrorizing me and who I am" "Some old wounds never truly heal and bleed again at the slightest word" "Life goes on but the scars remain the same " "After great pain, a formal feeling comes " "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places" "Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened" "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." "I've been scarred and battered" "There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there" "He who has been a soldier carries with him a memory mercilessly imprinted in him, and it will never leave him" "Not why the addiction but why the pain" "The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma, or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it" "The deepest psychological wounds are hidden from the conscious mind" "The healthy man does not torture others, generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers" "We don’t get to witness who we might have been if trauma hadn’t shaped us this way" "Children don’t get traumatized because they get hurt; children get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt" "The primary events of trauma rarely end when the traumatic experience itself ends" "The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow "