Quotes About Shell Shock

#1. Shell shock, they said in the First World War. Battle fatigue, in the Second. It's what happens when you live through things you shouldn't have been able to live through and can't reconcile that knowledge with the fact that you did.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock.
'Certainly not,' he replied.
'What have I got then?'
'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.

Siegfried Sassoon

#3. In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Jan Karon

#4. When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars.

Anita Diamant

#5. I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.

Erica Sehyun Song

#6. People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

John C. Maxwell

#7. [In Baptism] [W]e didn't really die. We weren't really buried. We weren't really crucified and raised again. We imitated these symbolically - yet our salvation was a reality!

Scott Hahn

#8. This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

Anne Ursu

#9. The Father of Glory (Ephesians 1:17), sent the Lord of Glory to lift up the man who had been crowned with the Glory, but had fallen from the Glory, back into the Glory of His Presence.

Brim Billye

#10. Well, dammit, if that was what it took to find her birth family, she'd bloody well find someone to marry.

Annie Seaton

#11. He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Shulamith Firestone

#12. OUR
SOCIETY IS
CONTROLLED BY LAWYERS
AND FINANCIERS
"PROBLEM
MAKERS WE NEED TO EVOME
TO A SOCIETY LEAD BY
CREATORS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS PROBLEM
SOLVERS. SURELY WE WILL
HAVE MORE INGENUITY
COOPERATION AND
PEACE

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#13. Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.

Immanuel Kant

#14. You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

Anthony De Mello

#15. Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

Richard K. Morgan

#16. Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.

Margo Adair

#17. If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

Yogi Berra

#18. I didn't know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.

Rick Riordan

#19. The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public ... What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?

Amado Nervo

#20. We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Marshall B. Rosenberg