Trauma Quotes - Page 8

• Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Love Is, Men

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.68, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

  Denise Crosby

  Dark, Perfect, Sides

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• A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

  Zadie Smith

  Mother, Country, Land

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.136, Vintage

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• Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Book, Toss

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• We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

  Heidi Julavits

  Childhood, What If, Adults

  Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.12, Penguin

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• The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Sweet, Jail

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Writing, Self, Important

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• 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

  Growing Up, War, Kids

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• Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

  Richard E. Besser

  Pregnancy, Heart, Pneumonia

  "Another American Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola in West Africa" by Sydney Lupkin, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

  Kumari Jayawardena

  War, Women, Being Single

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• Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

  Amy Grant

  Simple, Hectic Schedule, Long

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• Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind of narrative, it's my kind of storytelling. It's not style; it's just there.

  Lav Diaz

  Style, Narrative, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Two, Numbers, Brain

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• Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Memories, Past

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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• It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

  Anthony Storr

  Mean, People, Personality

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

  Matana Roberts

  People, Different, Stories

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.

  James Wolfensohn

  Loss, Skills, Development

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• At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]

  Jim Caviezel

  Makeup, Eight, Actors

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• I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

  Jerry West

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

  J.R. Ward

  Life Is, Black Dagger Brotherhood, Glorious

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.642, Penguin

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• Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.

  T. D. Jakes

  Pain, Chance, Prison

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Book, Long

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• You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303

  Diane Setterfield

  Rain, Loss, Emotional

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• Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.

  Zadie Smith

  Children, Moving, Islands

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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