Alice Miller
Psychologist, Author
"An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time."
Trauma quotes
Trauma
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis."
Gabrielle Bernstein
Author, Speaker
"I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it."
Robin Williams
Actor, Comedian
"Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma."
Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe."
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"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."
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"I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience."
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