Trauma Quotes - Page 5

• At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

  Philipp Meyer

  School, Years, Volunteer

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• If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

  Alex Berenson

  Body, Wells, Biotechnology

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• Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

  Eve Ensler

  Effects

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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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• 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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• Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.

  Anna C Salter

  Hurt, Recovery, Fate

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• With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Choices, Soul

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Mother, Wrestling

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Divorce, Emotional

  "Bait and Switch". Interview with April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. September 9, 2005.

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• When you sleep your eyes move left and right and physical movement takes trauma and moves it from your frontal lobe to the back of your brain or to another part of the brain where you can store it that memory but when you think about those things that happened, you don't associate the feeling that normally comes with it. So the problem is if you have something traumatic happen and you are not getting a good amount of rest, it will stay in your frontal lobe.

  Matty Mullins

  Memories, Moving, Sleep

  "Matty Mullins MMF Interview". Interview with Chris Duke, www.theshowlastnight.com. November 16, 2014.

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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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• When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

  John McLaughlin

  Boxes, Difficult

  Source: www.comicosity.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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• 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 do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Love Is, Intimate Relationships, Self

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• One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Believe, Optimistic

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• The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Criticism

  "A Trap for Republicans". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 13, 2013.

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• I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Father, Thinking, Focus

  "Lindsay Lohan On Her Trial, Her Career, And The Reasons She Lost Control". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. August 31, 2010.

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• Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

  Alanis Morissette

  Art, Healing, Journey

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette" by Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

  Harvey Pekar

  Facts, Looks, Stories

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

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• I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drama, Writing, Able

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• People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  People, Gloves, Crowds

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.

  Ang Lee

  Father, Parent, Taiwan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Couple, Women, Mean

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.287, Penguin

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• Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

  Robin Williams

  Way, Comedy, Cathartic

  "Robin Williams on Returning to TV, Getting Sober, and Downsizing in His 60s". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 12, 2013.

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