Trigger Warning Quotes

#1. I wondered, reading about the college discussions, whether, one day, people would put a trigger warning on my fiction. I wondered whether or not they would be justified in doing it. And then I decided to do it first.

Neil Gaiman

#2. No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. Rape victims carry mental scars that can trigger without warning.

Tawana Beecham

#4. When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

Albert Camus

#5. I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have prevented the rape. I didn't want my mother to blame herself and I didn't want to blame the little girl inside of me for not speaking up at the age of six.

Erin Merryn

#6. I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

Erin Merryn

#7. I reached and ran a finger along her collarbones, my favorite place: like the silhouette of tiny wings.

Lauren Oliver

#8. When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and afraid to share with anyone the memories that haunted me.

Erin Merryn

#9. Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

Anne Campbell

#10. If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. All modeling efforts will inevitably converge on the result most likely to lead to further funding.

Charlie Martin

#12. If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.

Brian Kobilka

#13. It's time for students to learn that Life is Triggering. Once they leave college, they'll be constantly exposed to views that challenge or offend them. There are a lot of jerks out there, and no matter what your politics are, a lot of people will have the opposite view.

Jerry A. Coyne

#14. The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name from the moon, it was only fair the moon had a chance to fix things.

Neil Gaiman

#15. The witch was as old as the mulberry tree
She lived in the house of a hundred clocks
She sold storms and sorrows and calmed the sea
And she kept her life in a box.

Neil Gaiman

#16. My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing my sister and me; rather, my mission was to give a face and voice to an epidemic that society stays hushed about.

Erin Merryn

#17. If we consider closely our so-called generous actions, there is none which, from some aspect, is not blameworthy an even harmful, so that we come to regret having performed it - so that we must choose, finally, between abstention and remorse.

Emil Cioran

#18. I like getting massages regularly. So much so, that I built a massage room adjacent to my office.

Stewart Rahr