Top 24 Ptsd Soldiers Quotes
#1. Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be.
John Conrad
#2. War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can't feel it, you weren't paying attention. And if you weren't paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.
Clint Van Winkle
#3. It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.
John Niven
#4. Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].
Alice Winocour
#5. Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.
Bruce Braley
#6. The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
Harvey Cox
#7. One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher rates of PTSD? Women who have escaped prostitution. That tells me that the war that men wage against women is actually worse than the wars they wage against each other.
Lierre Keith
#8. One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal.
Madonna Ciccone
#9. People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.
David Brooks
#10. Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
Paul Fussell
#11. Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
Larry David
#12. I had experience with PTSD myself; probably that's why I felt so close to the soldiers and the testimony. Also, because I had experienced this myself, I wanted to make a really physical and carnal film.
Alice Winocour
#13. Congratulations for conquering PTSD. And now you're fucked.
David Finkel
#14. I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.
Barbara Lee
#15. Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war - peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, tells you to turn over, think about home.
Clint Van Winkle
#17. He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate.
Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.
Alice Hoffman
#19. I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.
Mia Bloom
#20. By 1989, the total number of Vietnam veterans who had died in violent accidents or by suicide after the war exceeded the total number of American soldiers who died during the war.
Vladislav Tamarov
#21. Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.
Jane Leavy
#22. I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.
Alice Winocour
#23. May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
B.W. Powe
#24. Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.
Milton Berle
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