Top 100 Traumatic Quotes
#1. My biggest advice to people now is that when you go through something traumatic, you've got to go talk to somebody. You've got to be able to understand it, make peace with it inside yourself, and you've got to be able to let it go.
Tracy Lawrence
#2. Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
Kangana Ranaut
#3. 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
#4. The death of Dougal McGregor, however, although traumatic, seemed to free Minerva. Shortly after Voldemort's first defeat, Elphinstone, now white-haired, proposed again during a summertime stroll around the lake in the Hogwarts grounds. This time Minerva accepted.
J.K. Rowling
#5. Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.
Tian Dayton
#6. It was traumatic but exhilarating to feel what my father felt. I remember the ache of the separation from the people I loved. I would never go back to that time. Yet the things I learned benefited my life.
Nate Saint
#7. Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
Andrea Riseborough
#8. Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.
Douglas Rushkoff
#9. In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
Gary Hamel
#10. One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who are suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have no way of getting access to the remedies that are available to them.
Scott Stossel
#11. Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980 ... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.
Matthew Nable
#12. Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
Laura Dekker
#14. When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.
Sharon Creech
#15. Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#16. God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of China or a piece of floating space debris circling Pegasi. In this feeling-dead world of post traumatic stress, skepticism is king, queen, and court jester.
Chila Woychik
#17. The traumatic event itself, however horrendous, had a beginning, a middle, and an end, but I now saw that flashbacks could be even worse. You never know when you will be assaulted by them again and you have no way of telling when they will stop.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#18. What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.
Peter Berg
#19. After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
Judith Lewis Herman
#20. In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
Gavin Hood
#21. It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn't know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn't see?
Matt Haig
#22. What Cathy took from her rejection experience was self-doubt. Until this current traumatic hospitalization, Cathy hadn't realized the fear she was carrying around, how burdened she was by it, and how that fear kept her in a mode where she had to continuously prove her value to others and herself.
Robert Kegan
#23. Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
Richard Wagner
#24. If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.
Frederick Lenz
#25. As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
Judy Woodruff
#26. Trimming your dogs nails is a traumatic event that requires three people, a beach towel, and a can of spray cheese.
Allie Brosh
#27. Being abandoned by a child or children is the most traumatic experience ever suffered by a parent. It's a life-changing event, best- described as a living death. There
Sally Miller
#28. ...I thought you had to go to Iraq to get post traumatic stress disorder. And you do. But you can also just come on over to my house!
Carrie Fisher
#29. People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.
Susan Minot
#30. I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.
Atom Egoyan
#31. Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#32. I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.
Patty Hearst
#33. I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.
Haskell Wexler
#34. I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
Leonard Susskind
#35. They have made me understand how the City can get under your skin, and never be sweated out. I mean, it's still aesthetically traumatic, but it's got spirit.
Kamila Shamsie
#36. 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
#37. Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.
Seymour Papert
#38. She [Sarah Palin] by no - has any basic understanding of what post -traumatic stress disorder is, so I think it gives the rest of us an opportunity to have a real conversation about some of these problems.
Jon Soltz
#39. Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments,
Elizabeth Kostova
#40. If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.
Bret Easton Ellis
#41. My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
Steven Spielberg
#42. I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.
Richard Hammond
#43. I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.
Melina Marchetta
#44. Next, the psychiatrist's report must demonstrate how the claimant relives the traumatic event in one of the four following ways: recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event;
John D. Roche
#45. For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
#46. For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.
Caitlin Moran
#47. My brother is a doctor and he will take care of post-traumatic stress. I think he'll do it for free.
Wladimir Klitschko
#48. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett
#49. They may surprise you. Traumatic events change people. Makes them say and do unexpected things. So
Harper Bliss
#50. There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
Milton H. Erickson
#51. There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.
William Manchee
#52. Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
Bridget Moynahan
#53. It's like that sometimes for people who have had traumatic experiences in their past life. It's hard to move on, to belong, in one place when you have unresolved business in another.
Amanda Gray
#54. To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.
Matthew Bellamy
#55. When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.
Isabel Gillies
#56. When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.
Steven Moffat
#57. I am Frustration. I am Memory-Lost. Sometimes I read a line a dozen times before it sticks. My creative force has slipped. I type slower, speak slower, think at a snail's pace. I'm Life shapeshifted by Post Traumatic Stress, bastardized by Fate.
Chila Woychik
#58. It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.
Jess Glynne
#59. I once read a survey that explained how moving is as traumatic as divorce, or as the death of a parent.
S.K. Tremayne
#60. When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.
Claire Bidwell Smith
#61. There's a quality of legend about freaks.
Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Diane Arbus
#62. A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper.
Victoria Schwab
#63. and now he knew what it was like to be on the inside, caught in a web woven from your sickest fears and most traumatic experiences. There was no way to retreat from it, and no way to cut through it,
Stephen King
#64. The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
Michael Hastings
#65. People do tend to forget traumatic things. It's your mind's way of protecting itself.
Jodi Meadows
#66. Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.
Asa Don Brown
#67. Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.
Gloria Steinem
#68. The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .
Ellen Willis
#69. I had forgotten the fact that I had been raped, something no one would understand, how could anyone forget something as traumatic as being raped?
Stephen Richards
#70. Caregivers of those with a traumatic brain injury had their blood pressure recorded at certain time of day
at meals and during other activities, .. The blood pressure of the people who had adopted the pets went down dramatically.
Karen Allen
#71. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.
Patrick Rothfuss
#72. The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.
Trevor Moore
#73. Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?
P.D. James
#74. All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again ... and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.
Wilt Chamberlain
#75. A traumatic past does not condemn us to a dysfunctional future.
Nita Lapinski
#76. The Times, whose editorial portentousness approached traumatic constipation, tried to suppress its glee under the bushel basket of feigned sadness that another civil servant had been caught in a sexual misadventure; they hadn't even bothered to use the word "alleged.
John Sandford
#77. When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy ... I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.
Sinead O'Connor
#78. I don't remember much about being born but I hear it's quite a traumatic experience.
Phil Wohl
#79. Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.
Asa Don Brown
#80. Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.
Banana Yoshimoto
#81. All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
Steven Spielberg
#82. I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#83. I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.
Phil Klay
#84. Yes", she said her voice dripping with sarcasm. "That's exactly what I'm saying, in fact let's try sex again." She leaped to her feet and torn open her jeans. "Maybe my magic vagina will cure you of all the traumatic acts my family has inflected on you.
Larissa Ione
#85. When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Willie Aames
#86. Traumatic times in one's life often led to a sixth sense about things.
Catherine Bybee
#87. Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
Matt Lucas
#88. The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.
Frank Lowy
#89. We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.
Elif Shafak
#90. I think there's a huge - there's a huge desire in me to make sense of the world in a way that I think you can trace back to that early disruption, this idea of wanting to compensate for that really kind of traumatic experience and sort of seeing its impact on my immediate and extended family.
Khoi Vinh
#91. I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.
Christina Ricci
#92. On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it.
Pat Condell
#93. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less
J.A. Redmerski
#94. The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.
Jodi Picoult
#95. Her [Sarah Palin] son went to Iraq under George W. Bush, but it gives us a chance to explain what post-traumatic stress disorder is.
Jon Soltz
#96. I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.
Woody Allen
#97. Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.
Ilana Mercer
#98. New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.
Connie Kalitta
#99. To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.
Frank McCourt
#100. In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.
Emmylou Harris
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