Quotes About Traumatic Childhood

#1. The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.

James Garbarino

#2. I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

Kate Zambreno

#3. Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

James Hillman

#4. Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

Jed Diamond

#5. As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Michael Gruber

#6. Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.

Lynette Gould

#7. It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

Annette Bening

#8. The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

Emily Dickinson

#9. His mother asked, "And when is a marriage successful?" He had the feeling she was about to provide the answer, the very answer that people the world over were searching for. And he was right. "When the wife loves the husband," Nadira told him. "Not just loves him, but is crazy about him! Only then.

Anat Talshir

#10. Dirck's mind hadn't stopped racing since the arrest. Why were the only dreams that came true nightmares?

Marcha A. Fox

#11. Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

John Caudwell

#12. It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#13. Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.

Henry R Brandt

#14. She would tell him what she wanted in her life
her hopes and dreams for the future
and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. My traumatic experience was life changing

Asa Don Brown

#16. I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.

James McCartney

#17. Soft brown sugar dusted the lips of the plates, dissolving to gold in the hot heart of the toast. The

Sarah Hilary

#18. Don't leave me," I begged, when I found air to speak. Kellan wrapped his arms around me just as tight. Voice cracking he murmured, "I won't ... I'm yours, Kiera, for as long as you want me." Pulling back I cupped his face. "Forever, I want you forever.

S.C. Stephens

#19. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life

Lynette Gould

#20. I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

Woody Allen

#21. Now may this little Book a blessing be
To those that love this little Book, and me:
And may its Buyer have no cause to say,
His money is but lost, or thrown away.

John Bunyan

#22. Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.

Renee Fredrickson

#23. I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.

Ray Winstone

#24. Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Gabriela Mistral

#25. I would love to work with my dad! We've never done anything live together. I'm always open to working with talented people, and I think my dad certainly qualifies.

Jennifer Grey

#26. Simon, don't you think I'm scared of that too? You're not the only one on that ledge. If we jump, we jump together. We fall together.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

Asa Don Brown