Top 133 Trauma Quotes

I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.

The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters’ lives.

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.

Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate – the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.

One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them unfairly, when we condemn them unfairly.

They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.

This is not a slow movement of change. It’s a shift in the consciousness of each of us. It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.

I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.

My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.

As a doctor, I was aware that when children go through severe trauma, they shouldn’t see their parents completely disintegrate because subconsciously, that tells them they have no one to take care of them.

I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people’s trauma and by other people’s emotional experience with it, and I think I’m richer for that, frankly.

Children in foster care are there through no fault of their own, and they face challenges that would test the resolve of even the most mature adults: frequent moves, early trauma, instability, and in many cases, abuse.

Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in the Philippines escaping Japanese military chasing after them – I grew up with what they deem now as trauma, generational trauma.

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.

As a children’s author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.

I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don’t think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I’ve spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.

I ran for office because I believe personally that the cycle of poverty is systemic, is rooted in racial injustice, and is rooted in gender bias. It is violence. It is trauma. It is a crime. But, most importantly, it is our policy choice.

There’s a competitive grief atmosphere in acting classes. Like, whoever has the biggest trauma is sort of like the winner of the day today or gets the A+. That, I could identify with from when I sort of dabbled with method acting classes when I was a teenager.

I was quite shy when I was younger, but I’m not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.

Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.

When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you’re realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it’s going to take a lifetime to undo.

I come from a world where the word ‘trauma’ doesn’t exist, because we are too poor. I didn’t have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn’t all that bad.

I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.

How come nobody in Bollywood has sleepless nights when a woman becomes a victim of abuse and is not able to work due to the trauma and ostracisation?

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?

The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

My childhood had extremely difficult moments and some trauma but there were also amazing moments and times of pure happiness.

I don’t remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I’m in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you’ve had, you can still love yourself.

One of the things that interested me about Five was the trauma that was contributed via the apocalypse. I wanted to make sure that I got his PTSD correct.

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don’t have any dysfunction, and I’ve never experienced trauma.

Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens.

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I’ve been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when and where it comes.

Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it’s all in your head?

I’d say that the only trauma I’ve suffered was existential.

I’ve DP’d so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to believe in the story.

We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.

Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha’s insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha’s basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness.

A descendant of enslaved people, George Floyd was born with generational trauma in his DNA and denied the generational wealth that belonged to his family.

There’s a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.

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.

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

We’re all born storytellers. It’s part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.

I’m grounded in joy; I’m not grounded in the trauma anymore.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

I don’t think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.