Welcome to our page dedicated to Trauma Quotes. Trauma is a deeply personal and often challenging experience that can leave lasting impacts on individuals. It’s essential to acknowledge and understand the emotional and psychological effects of trauma to support those who have endured it. In this collection of quotes, we aim to shed light on the complexity of trauma, its aftermath, and the resilience of the human spirit. Whether you’re seeking solace, inspiration, or insight, these quotes will provide you with meaningful perspectives on this topic. Feel free to use these quotes for your own purposes, whether it’s for personal reflection, sharing on social media, or creating meaningful visual content. Explore the wisdom, empathy, and strength captured in these trauma quotes, and discover ways to incorporate them into your life.
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 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
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
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
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
We have a pandemic of childhood trauma. Drew Pinsky
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
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. Barbara Ehrenreich
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
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
Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction. Drew Pinsky
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
The big ‘Aha!’ moment is that the trauma never goes away. Viola Davis
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
Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally. Victoria de los Angeles
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
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
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
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
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
I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza. Isaac Herzog
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
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
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal. bell hooks
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
Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child’s play. Tarana Burke
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
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
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
In boxing, you’ve got CTE from head trauma constantly. Israel Adesanya
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
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
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
They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is. Neil Strauss
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
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
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
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.
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it’s not pretty – it’s full of trauma. Matthew Desmond
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do. Alex Berenson
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
Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence. Peter A. Levine
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits. H. G. Bissinger
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. Peter A. Levine
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
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
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
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
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
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
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. Robin Williams
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
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
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
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
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 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
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. Kazuo Ishiguro
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
I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it. Clemantine Wamariya