Trauma Quotes

‘The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.’ – Robin Williams

‘Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability – the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy – to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.’ – Neil Strauss

‘No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.’ – Alfred Adler

‘Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it’s all in your head?’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it’s by the ripcord of a diagnosis or some other kind of heartbreak or trauma that brings us to the floor. We need to find a way to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.’ – Bennet Omalu

‘Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘If God truly wanted me to stop, all He’d have to do is have one doctor at the Mayo Clinic find something wrong with my brain. Just one little CAT scan showing any sign of trauma or damage, and I’d be done.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.’ – Clemantine Wamariya

‘Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us – in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘The big ‘Aha!’ moment is that the trauma never goes away.’ – Viola Davis

‘Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.’ – Geoffrey S. Fletcher

‘All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro

‘Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child’s play.’ – Tarana Burke

‘The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.’ – Taylor Swift

‘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

‘The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘There’s a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.’ – Alain de Botton

‘I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or blinded me. I was this close to dying at two, which is terrible. I survived it, and there was no head trauma or anything like that. Honestly, it was a miracle.’ – Charlie Puth

‘The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.’ – Roger Altman

‘Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.’ – Cris Carter

‘Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.’ – Steven Seagal

‘In boxing, you’ve got CTE from head trauma constantly.’ – Israel Adesanya

‘If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you’re not dreaming about it, something’s probably wrong.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them unfairly, when we condemn them unfairly.’ – Bryan Stevenson

‘Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.’ – Christina Baker Kline

‘We must invest in affordable housing, quality education, safe parks and green space, good paying jobs, comprehensive mental health and trauma services, and other supports that will help all of our people.’ – Cori Bush

‘One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.’ – Hugh Mackay

‘If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.’ – Alex Berenson

‘The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.’ – bell hooks

‘I am used to experiencing so much trauma, that when I see it, I have to speak out. I don’t think rappers have a responsibility, but if you don’t say something or be silent or avoid it, I believe it shows your true real character to the world. It’s like, if no one wants to rap about gentrification then I am going to fill that void!’ – JPEGMAFIA

‘One thing I can say as far as people from black communities dealing with trauma or PTSD is putting some trauma centers or some type of therapy sessions and some after-school programs for the kids, so they can have a real outlet to express themselves.’ – Polo G

‘A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they’ve trusted take responsibility, and that is what’s toxic.’ – Hannah Gadsby

‘Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate – the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.’ – Richard Ben-Veniste

‘The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

”Option B’ draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone.’ – Sheryl Sandberg

‘Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.’ – Jane Leavy

‘Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.’ – Damon Galgut

‘The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.’ – Mike Honda

‘The act of riding a bicycle isn’t causing brain trauma. Yeah, you could fall, but that’s if something goes wrong. Everything could go right in football, and it’s still dangerous.’ – Chris Borland

‘When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.’ – Rosalynn Carter

‘Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.’ – Morris Gleitzman

‘Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.’ – Anne Grant

‘Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it’s true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.’ – Helen Fisher

‘Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps – and if you’re really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.’ – Allison Anders

‘I was depressed after the transplant because it’s very tough to understand the trauma you still face. I remember emptying a big bag of medication and just crying and thinking, ‘For me to survive another day, this is what I’ve got to take. For the rest of my life. I’m not sure I can continue.” – Andy Cole

‘Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha’s insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha’s basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.’ – Mary Gauthier

‘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

‘The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I’d get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you’d have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life’s filled with trauma. You don’t need to go to war to find it; it’s going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven’t dealt with, it comes out. That’s why you have a lot of artists that don’t make it through.’ – Jeremy Sisto

‘Just because it was multiple ligaments, just because of the trauma of the injury, they compared it to like a car accident. I didn’t have anybody to follow, there was no timetable. I could get better, I could not get better. You just don’t know. People fear what they don’t know. I’m in the dark, and everything is just about faith.’ – Shaun Livingston

‘I’ve heard that’s common with trauma – your mind replaces memories with blank spaces. Like a Ctrl-Alt-Delete for anything that hurts too much. I have so many black holes in my brain. Memories are sucked in and never come back out.’ – Breanna Stewart

‘If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn’t have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps.’ – Timothy Morton

‘When I was on ‘Trauma,’ the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I’m used to that.’ – Taylor Kinney

‘Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in the Philippines escaping Japanese military chasing after them – I grew up with what they deem now as trauma, generational trauma.’ – Tamlyn Tomita

‘The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.’ – Reuven Rivlin

‘Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they’re desolate.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘I’m grounded in joy; I’m not grounded in the trauma anymore.’ – Tarana Burke

‘A New Way of Life is a safe house that women can come to after they’re released from prison in South Los Angeles. It’s a place for women to detox the trauma, the torture of incarceration, be welcomed and embraced and live and begin their new path to – if it’s recovery or receiving mental health services, go back to school, get their children back.’ – Susan Burton

‘We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.’ – Drew Pinsky

‘Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.’ – Henry Cloud

‘If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped – unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.’ – Phil Klay

‘PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don’t understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn’t go away.’ – Mark Goulston

‘I think – you know, the big trauma in my life, personally, was the fact that at 14, I was taken out of Poland unwittingly because my parents were divorced. Left the country – my mother left for England with her new husband. I wasn’t even aware that she’d married him.’ – Pawel Pawlikowski

‘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

‘Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.’ – Bennet Omalu

‘Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.’ – Drew Pinsky

‘I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.’ – Tom Brady

‘These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.’ – Peter Straub

‘Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.’ – Victoria de los Angeles

‘I don’t carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that’s what you’re hinting at. The story of the bicycles – and there were three of them which were stolen from me – I’ve dealt with it well.’ – Angela Merkel

‘The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It’s more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.’ – Alex Lifeson

‘As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries – stroke and trauma – affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.’ – Allyson Schwartz

‘However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.’ – Julian Clary

‘I don’t need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.’ – Sting

‘I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they’d be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.’ – Jodi Picoult

‘I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I’ve been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.’ – Ricky Williams

‘I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they’re young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma – something that makes you want to be funny.’ – Julie Brown

‘Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.’ – Deborah Norville

‘I began to speak well at a very advanced age – 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.’ – Roberto Cavalli

‘I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.’ – Tom Hooper

‘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

‘I know I’m breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it’s the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.’ – Jean-Francois Cope

‘As a children’s author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.’ – Anthony Horowitz

”Looper’ is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It’s about finding love in the third act of your life. It’s about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.’ – Jason Reitman

‘There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.’ – H. G. Bissinger

‘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 are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that’s 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.’ – Denise Juneau

‘I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.’ – Daniel Pipes

‘The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.’ – Naveen Jain

‘If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.’ – Eve Ensler

‘I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?’ – Rachel Kushner

‘Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.’ – Graydon Carter

‘I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson

‘For the first five years of Luca’s life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there’s a danger of suffocating your kids, too.’ – Janine di Giovanni

‘I was quite shy when I was younger, but I’m not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.’ – Emilia Fox

‘The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters’ lives.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.’ – Tucker Max

‘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

‘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

‘Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you’re having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, ‘This is quite normal; it’s fine.” – Lulu

‘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

‘I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.’ – Claire Cameron

‘As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn’t suffer from PTSD.’ – Jane Leavy

‘Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I’m in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you’ve had, you can still love yourself.’ – Patch Adams

‘Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there’s not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘If I had all the filmmakers that traumatized me when I was a little kid in this room, all I would say is, ‘Thank you,’ because they’ve made me who I am. As much as I say ‘trauma,’ it all comes from a place of love. The fact that I am feeling emotions at all based on a work is a wonderful thing, so I’m happy to be a part of that discussion.’ – Drew Goddard

‘I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can’t remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.’ – Holliday Grainger

‘Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and shift out of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, addictions, infertility, and insecurity at a cellular level.’ – Jenna Morasca

‘To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.’ – Ellen Willis

‘The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people’s emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.’ – Steven Bochco

‘Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who’ve done it need to remember that.’ – Michael Ignatieff

‘Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don’t have any dysfunction, and I’ve never experienced trauma.’ – Lisa Unger

‘Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.’ – John Ortberg

‘No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one’s own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.’ – Raymond Moody

‘Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.’ – Neve McIntosh

‘If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon – the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited – all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.’ – James Gray

‘Sometimes I think we’re exposed to things we shouldn’t be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person’s whole life. Trauma.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘We’re all born storytellers. It’s part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.’ – Nic Pizzolatto

‘I don’t remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.’ – Michel Faber

‘I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn’t become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘I don’t think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.’ – Christina Baker Kline

‘Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.’ – Phil Klay

‘No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war’s dislocation.’ – Joe Haldeman

‘I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.’ – Imre Kertesz

‘As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can’t pretend that these things don’t affect these characters; they have to. If they don’t, then you’re essentially writing cartoons.’ – Mark Billingham

‘I’ve never written a character that wasn’t burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let’s face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He’s a healthy guy – imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.’ – Ann Nocenti

‘Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well – which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me.’ – G. Willow Wilson

‘I was in San Francisco for ‘Trauma’ and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it’s all a waiting game. And then, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ came up, and I was really interested and read for it.’ – Taylor Kinney

‘At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.’ – Brin-Jonathan Butler

‘I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.’ – Isaac Herzog

‘Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don’t have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.’ – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

‘For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.’ – Jim Mattis

‘We’re all capable of being more than we presently are, and the effort that it takes and the will that it takes and sometimes the trauma and tragedy that it takes to force us into that kind of growth is the story of our lives.’ – Scott Derrickson

‘Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one’s own life.’ – Scott Derrickson

‘I was worried if you adopted a foster child, someone from the birth family could still come and take her back. I was afraid that any child in foster care might have suffered such trauma or neglect that she would be impossible to reach. I’m not proud of these fears. But I understand now when others ask me the same questions.’ – Nia Vardalos

‘It’s rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you’re not just portraying endless trauma on film.’ – Diane Lane

‘The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We’re not just healing from what’s been inflicted onto us as children… it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it’s not pretty – it’s full of trauma.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it’s not pretty – it’s full of trauma. And we’re able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance – we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.’ – Alexandra Fuller

‘I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.’ – Chris Sacca

‘Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these ‘violations’ can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are traumatized, our entire organism is geared up to find the source of that threat and to do something about it.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to this question is that witnessing the transformation that takes place in people when they master their traumas has proven to be a deeply sustaining and uplifting experience in my life.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it with Bush.’ – David Means

‘I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered – and still suffers – from mental illness. For a long time I imagined – and I know it’s absurd – that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War.’ – David Means

‘Children in foster care are there through no fault of their own, and they face challenges that would test the resolve of even the most mature adults: frequent moves, early trauma, instability, and in many cases, abuse.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.’ – Hisham Matar

‘As a European from a different, younger generation, the trauma that was Nixon’s presidency never really had a hold over me. For one thing, I never voted for him.’ – Peter Morgan

‘There’s a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can’t. If you’ve got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.’ – Daniel Kaluuya

‘Economic activity can help repair war-torn societies, but if it’s not conducted responsibly, it can also create or prolong violence. Companies and international organisations must help strengthen communities and overcome the trauma of violence.’ – Peter Maurer

‘I don’t remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident.’ – Emily V. Gordon

‘Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should’ve been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.’ – Susan Burton

‘Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.’ – Susan Burton

‘It would have been great if there were a trauma center located in our community, where you could access grief counseling and be able to address it in a healthy manner.’ – Susan Burton

‘Many times, I left the prison thinking, ‘I’m smart. I can make it. I won’t get caught up again.’ But you get off downtown Skid Row, and you’re a target for all of the environmental harms in that area. The pain and trauma in that area is so thick, you can almost reach your hand out and touch it.’ – Susan Burton

‘I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling… they’re working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there’s a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.’ – Gail Simone

‘In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.’ – Mary H.K. Choi

‘Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won’t have to.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I didn’t know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back to the prisons and probation camps and the inner city to say that you don’t have to go through the violence, through the trauma like I did.’ – Richard Cabral

‘The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE.’ – Ann McKee

‘My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I’m thankful he didn’t.’ – Ann McKee

‘My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.’ – Ann McKee

‘There’s a competitive grief atmosphere in acting classes. Like, whoever has the biggest trauma is sort of like the winner of the day today or gets the A+. That, I could identify with from when I sort of dabbled with method acting classes when I was a teenager.’ – Sarah Goldberg

‘My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided and facilitated by presidents and their administrations.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you’re realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it’s going to take a lifetime to undo.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘I don’t want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I’m not in a position to quantify or qualify people’s trauma.’ – Tarana Burke

‘I’ve DP’d so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to believe in the story.’ – Reed Morano

‘We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.’ – Bernice King

‘Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens.’ – Pramila Jayapal

‘When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It’s only through story, reading books by Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi, that you really begin to understand the trauma and how horrible it actually was.’ – Uzodinma Iweala

‘In ‘The Darkest Minds,’ Zu’s trauma manifests in her choosing to remain silent. It’s her one small way she can feel in control of her otherwise uncontrollable situation.’ – Alexandra Bracken

‘The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it’s much harder to exploit an equal.’ – Alissa Quart

‘I don’t think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America’s prisons until I began taking the time to listen to their stories.’ – Michelle Alexander

‘Susan Burton’s life story – filled with trauma, struggle, and true heroism – is precisely the kind of story that has the potential to change the way we view our world.’ – Michelle Alexander

‘I’ve always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.’ – Mary Gauthier

‘I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don’t think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I’ve spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.’ – Mary Gauthier

‘People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.’ – Mary Gauthier

”Grbavica’ is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.’ – Jasmila Zbanic

‘My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.’ – Jasmila Zbanic

‘There’s this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma. There have been attempts by black artists to try and figure out how to represent that in some kind of way.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘Unhappiness isn’t just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply due to the burden of all our things.’ – Fumio Sasaki

‘When you’re going through these difficult times of chaos and trauma, the most important thing is to keep those who are closest to you together.’ – Michael Imperioli

‘It’s hard to talk about childhood trauma. It’s hard to talk about depression. It’s hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought – I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.’ – Benji Madden

‘When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger – issues with my father and how that may have affected me.’ – Charlamagne tha God

‘The people in my family couldn’t adjust to the political atmosphere around me. I didn’t want my political ambitions to cause stress or trauma for my family. I didn’t want any name, fame, or money at the cost of my family.’ – Govinda

‘I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people’s trauma and by other people’s emotional experience with it, and I think I’m richer for that, frankly.’ – Chris Murphy

‘My mother found herself in a triangular situation of my father and his legitimate wife. I experienced the emotional trauma of that triangle in my cradle.’ – Mahesh Bhatt

‘I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It’s not just a material thing; it’s a psychological thing that we have no mental health system in this country.’ – Eric Garcetti

‘World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.’ – A. B. Yehoshua

‘Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.’ – Hunter Biden

‘For a long time, it was all about chart position. ‘If my record doesn’t come in at No. 1, I’m a failure.’ I cared too much about what people thought of me, and that was symptomatic of the trauma from my childhood.’ – Jimmy Barnes

‘You go through mental preparation the night before the game and prepare for moments of trauma in a game when it happens.’ – Robert Green

‘I had no lasting physical trauma nor a psychological one. Yet, it was hard to return to the old path. I found myself asking big questions: Why was my life spared? What is my purpose here? And it led me to a life of inquiry.’ – Yossi Ghinsberg

‘I’d say that the only trauma I’ve suffered was existential.’ – Yossi Ghinsberg

‘Certain people are more likely to use drugs because of whatever it is: They’ve suffered some trauma in their life. They have risk factors like mental illness, people with learning disabilities, with attention problems.’ – David Sheff

‘As much as ‘It Chapter One’ is a movie about friendship and the power of unified belief, the second part is more about trauma.’ – Andy Muschietti

‘I think that definitely any trauma – whether it’s childhood or later in life – affects you negatively, especially when it’s suppressed, but there’s so much of us which is already in place.’ – Roland Orzabal

‘How come nobody in Bollywood has sleepless nights when a woman becomes a victim of abuse and is not able to work due to the trauma and ostracisation?’ – Tanushree Dutta

‘Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.’ – Dana White

‘For some people, it is easier to command a nation, to send thousands to their deaths in unnecessary wars, to separate children from their families and inflict terrible suffering, than to process their own trauma and pain.’ – George Monbiot

‘There’s the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to citizens. The more credible hypothesis, I think, is that there is a kind of trauma, a social trauma that is passed on from generation to generation.’ – Masha Gessen

‘The more trauma and bad experiences you have, the more you are able to laugh on yourself and the situation.’ – Neena Gupta

‘Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions – they’re too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that’s a chronic thing that’s solved in an-inter personal context.’ – Drew Pinsky

‘Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn’t necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It’s not necessarily the issue but if you have bad addiction, it’s there.’ – Drew Pinsky

‘Patrick Melrose’ is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At its core, it is a story that has a timeless quality with echoes of Cervantes.’ – Drew Pinsky

‘Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in ‘Patrick Melrose.” – Drew Pinsky

‘All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.’ – Drew Pinsky

‘People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.’ – Jennifer Ashton

‘As a doctor, I was aware that when children go through severe trauma, they shouldn’t see their parents completely disintegrate because subconsciously, that tells them they have no one to take care of them.’ – Jennifer Ashton

‘This is kind of a dual existence where you are harsh but at the same time emotional. You are there because you have experienced trauma.’ – Zoya Akhtar

‘My childhood had extremely difficult moments and some trauma but there were also amazing moments and times of pure happiness.’ – Dominique Jackson

‘Children certainly can’t learn if they’re dealing with trauma or mental illness.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘One of my priorities is giving victims the right to choose different paths to restoration and to healing. It’s prioritizing having restitution available for economic harm, having victim services for the trauma and also recognizing that victims are far more than simply pieces of evidence to be used in order to secure a lengthy prison sentence.’ – Chesa Boudin

‘For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a counsellor or psychotherapist.’ – Luciana Berger

”BUMP’ deals with all the joys and trauma that comes with a woman’s changing body and the struggles of going through labor. It’s a beautiful ensemble cast of wonderful people, and I get emotional just being part of the process.’ – Lucy DeVito

‘This is not a slow movement of change. It’s a shift in the consciousness of each of us. It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.’ – Gail Bradbrook

‘The doctors have said that they don’t want me in the ring bouncing around or getting picked up and slammed down. They said the old head just can’t survive anymore trauma.’ – Ricky Steamboat

‘By addressing generations of trauma in the Black community, Concordance helps people released from prison achieve significant change and lasting success for themselves, their families and the community.’ – David Steward

‘There’s something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the development of a person.’ – Lynne Ramsay

‘I definitely have a dark sense of humor, and in ways I think that comes from having a lot of childhood trauma – a little bit, not fully.’ – Patti Harrison

‘Let women write horror. Let women write darkness, let women write trauma, without having to carve out their own trauma to justify it.’ – Leigh Bardugo

‘You suffer from trauma from the things that you’ve been through because you come from a poverty-stricken background. There are a lot of us like that.’ – Bugzy Malone

‘Focusing only on street homelessness is resource-intensive, and acts after the rough sleeper has already endured significant hardship and trauma. Acting before people are homeless makes far more sense, economically and for the long-term wellbeing of a household.’ – Dawn Foster

‘I think at people’s core, everybody’s just looking to be healed inside because we all coming with childhood trauma, especially people of color.’ – Kirk Franklin

‘I think the trauma of giving birth made me feel vulnerable and I wasn’t invincible. Giving birth made me feel like I could die at any minute.’ – Stacey Solomon

‘Any character that has a reference or baggage or emotional trauma, I personally feel, leaves an impact.’ – Mohit Raina

‘The most trauma I had was on the tennis court.’ – Mardy Fish

‘One of the things that interested me about Five was the trauma that was contributed via the apocalypse. I wanted to make sure that I got his PTSD correct.’ – Aidan Gallagher

‘Five has sort of had his own little life aside from everyone. He spent 45 years in the apocalypse, and that took a toll on him and was a big part of his overall trauma.’ – Aidan Gallagher

‘I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when and where it comes.’ – Rege-Jean Page

‘We’ve all known how to smile since the beginning of time. We’ve all gotten married since the beginning of time. We’ve all had romance, glamour, and splendor. Representing that is incredibly important, because period drama for people who aren’t white shouldn’t mean only spotlighting trauma.’ – Rege-Jean Page

‘We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.’ – Rege-Jean Page

‘I’m eclectic in my tastes because of my trauma. It’s madness. It’s almost ADHD.’ – Goldie

‘It’s very important to understand how the trauma of a life drives the music to really mean something.’ – Goldie

‘They test NFL players for brain trauma. They track them for the life of their career and even outside of their career. So I’ve done all the MRIs and testing with them.’ – Liz Carmouche

‘My hometown has been devastated by a lack of access to trauma prevention and mental health services.’ – Cori Bush

‘A descendant of enslaved people, George Floyd was born with generational trauma in his DNA and denied the generational wealth that belonged to his family.’ – Cori Bush

‘This stereotype that Black and brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma: the cradle to prison pipeline, foster care, youth detention, and being tried and sentenced as adults. We treat trauma with more trauma.’ – Cori Bush

‘We need leaders who are able to vividly remember how it feels to experience hardship, trauma and pain, who make us feel less alone.’ – Stephanie Land

‘I ran for office because I believe personally that the cycle of poverty is systemic, is rooted in racial injustice, and is rooted in gender bias. It is violence. It is trauma. It is a crime. But, most importantly, it is our policy choice.’ – Jamaal Bowman

‘The Green New Deal for Public Schools represents the level of school infrastructure investment that is urgent and necessary to heal the harm from decades of disinvestment, redlining and cycles of poverty and trauma, particularly for Black and brown children.’ – Jamaal Bowman

‘Because of war millions of children are growing up with high levels of stress and trauma, missing out on school and becoming withdrawn from their friends and families.’ – Penny Mordaunt

‘The quickest, the more efficient way, and causing less pain and trauma, the better.’ – Rickson Gracie

‘While it is couples who ‘are going to have a baby,’ miscarriages only happen to women. Yet the emotional trauma of the overwhelming sense of loss and grief affects both parents.’ – Julia Hartley-Brewer

‘Childhood trauma is childhood trauma, whether you’re a player or a forklift driver. They are the same feelings, and there are the same solutions.’ – Tony Adams

‘When we go all over the world and observe art therapy, it’s used frequently with people who are having some kind of depression, or stress or trauma, anxiety, anger issues.’ – Karen Pence

‘What we found is, art therapy can be used for anyone who’s experiencing trauma.’ – Karen Pence

‘With veterans, we want them to be able to talk about their struggles and sometimes they can’t. Sometimes they’re dealing with trauma that damages the brain. Sometimes they just don’t know how to tell people they’re struggling.’ – Karen Pence

‘In grief, there isn’t time to want to be like someone else. Trauma means reacting in the moment, as you are. You have to be horribly yourself. Like in a novel where character is revealed through actions, crisis showed me who I was.’ – Katy Wix

‘A lot of us have a trauma response of over-explaining and taking you away from what you’re actually feeling.’ – Aimee Lou Wood

‘I think everyone’s in their own trauma and fighting through something.’ – Jacob Elordi

‘When people are in trauma they need the love of food.’ – Andi Oliver

‘Some have reevaluated their own trauma in light of learning about the Bystander Effect.’ – Jackie Fuchs

‘Something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up, basically, and Black women don’t get to really process and work through their trauma because they’re too busy dealing with everyone else.’ – Nia DaCosta

‘Candyman’ is so perennial. We’re talking about the cycles of violence and how history repeats itself and how we collectively process trauma through stories.’ – Nia DaCosta

‘You have to be respectful of the stories you’re telling. You can never use the real-world trauma as a sort of crass entertainment.’ – Nia DaCosta

‘For me, ‘Candyman’ has always been about telling stories and how they are important to keep telling because they will hopefully stop us from repeating the past. But it also shows how everlasting this pain and trauma are.’ – Nia DaCosta

‘I think all horror movies are about trauma in one way or another, but I would love for there to be more space even within horror for us to talk about stuff that’s not ‘Being Black is really sad.’ There are so many facets to our existence.’ – Nia DaCosta

‘I think the important thing is you’re able to function as a parent to your other children, if you’re lucky enough to have more children, and you’re able to cope with the world and work. When you’re in the trauma of losing a child, you can’t imagine that that will ever be the case.’ – Jason Watkins

‘It’s one of the things people don’t understand is trauma.’ – Sean Strickland

‘The depiction of Black history in British schools and on TV has mainly been trauma and struggle-based.’ – Judi Love

‘I would just love to see more shows that highlight positivity rather than trauma of the Black experience.’ – Judi Love