Trauma Quotes - Page 4

• You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

  Michael Ealy

  Children, Drama, Thinking

  "Michael Ealy On Set Interview UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 22, 2011.

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• We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.

  Radhanath Swami

  Pain, Confusion, Judging

  "The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami". Book by Radhanath Swami, 2009.

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• For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

  Melissa Farley

  Historical, Prostitution, Colonization

  "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women". Transcultural Psychiatry 42, article co-written with J. Lynne and A. Cotton, 2005.

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• Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

  Bell Hooks

  Shame, Produce, Paralysis

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• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  Andrew Himes

  Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt

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• There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Football, Medical, Danger

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• What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Taken, Mourning, Faces

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.19, South End Press

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• The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.

  William Greider

  War, Echoes, Engineering

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• children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  Gail Sheehy

  Children, Order, Self

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• The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.

  Mark Nepo

  Real, Emotional, Flying

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

  Leonard Orr

  Stress, Breathing, Ordinary

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• no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Exaggeration

  Beryl Bainbridge (1967). “A Weekend with Claud”

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• When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

  Chris Prentiss

  Stress, Believe, Giving

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.109, BookBaby

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• Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

  Jennifer Stone

  Light, Sorrow, Rubbish

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Lonely, War, Moving

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• I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

  Phoebe Stone

  Children, Memories, Block

  Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.135, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems.
  It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas,
  flowing through dreams and illuminations.
  Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however,
  it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it

  Caroline Myss

  Dream, Divine Guidance, Illumination

  Caroline Myss (2007). “Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.

  John Maus

  Christian, Pain, Romantic Love

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

  Kate Millett

  Change, Real, Circles

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.360, University of Illinois Press

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• People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Real, Hair, People

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, February 23, 2001.

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• The unfortunate thing, and the tragedy of this show [Revenge], is in exploring the theme of revenge. Absolutely everyone can find peace, at some point or another, but the interesting thing is how you find it, the collateral damage along the way and all the trauma that she indirectly causes all these other people in her circle.

  Emily VanCamp

  Revenge, Unfortunate Things, Circles

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Average, World, Easy

  "Danger woman" by Alexander Linklater, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2005.

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• Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Character, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Healing, Evil, People

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.217, Rowman Altamira

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• Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.

  Chris Kluwe

  Football, Running, Nfl

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