Trauma And Grief Quotes

#1. I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo in July of 2012. It helped me as it has millions of people with the trauma and grief associated with the great personal loss of a loved one."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#2. What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.

Nancy Reagan

#3. When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy.

Billy Graham

#4. When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

Erich Fromm

#5. I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.

Zach Johnson

#6. I wanted to peel myself off of me.

Wendy Walker

#7. Enough, children. In case you haven't noticed, we have a major situation playing out. We have to find and stop War, corral the gallu, protect Apostolos, and get Savitar out of here. (Apollymi) Why the later? (Jared) Because I hate his guts. (Apollymi) I hate you, too, precious. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Be kind and considerate with your criticism ... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Malcolm Cowley

#10. Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

Michael Palin

#11. I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it.

David Foster Wallace

#12. So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

Pat Summerall

#13. Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.

Asa Don Brown

#14. Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.

Winifred Gallagher

#15. Those were the best times, when I was still all promise and potential. Because right now I'm definitely not the most important sixteen-year-old on the planet. Not even ish. I'm just another prebumped girl dangerously close to wasting her prime reproductivity.

Megan McCafferty

#16. Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.

Suze Orman

#17. Books are more real when you read them outside.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Secret, smug believers! God never gives you
more than you can bear, they like to say, as if
the strong should be punished for their strength:
We can bear it. So we got it.
But what about my baby? How weak does
a newborn have to be to escape God's burdens?

Brenda Shaughnessy

#19. So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.

Alyssa Day

#20. I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delightful too, if I let it. My love is not diminished if I let go of sorrow. I almost believe that.

Jenny Qi

#21. No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I'm forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I'll come up short and suffocate.

Sarah Noffke

#22. Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

Mark Epstein

#23. How is that for service? Do you know how many men onboard would kill for the use of a spoon?"
"And do you know," she retorted, "how many men I can kill with a spoon?

Susan Dennard

#24. If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

Tommy Docherty

#25. The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

Andrea Gibson

#26. Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

Sandy Oshiro Rosen

#27. Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.

Wendy Walker

#28. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.

Laura Anderson Kurk