Revised Trauma Quotes & Sayings

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within. — Vert

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. — Susanna Kaysen

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat. — Adolf Galland

A woman who is striving invites others to strive. The message - sometimes implicit in her actions, sometimes explicit through her words - is, "Get your act together. Life is uncertain. There is no time for your heart here. Shape up. Get busy. That's what is important." She does not say, "All is well. All shall be well." Her fear doesn't allow it. She is withholding the very things her world needs. — John Eldredge

You don't talk about how the job is going until the job is done ," Loch said. — Patrick Weekes

One man's flash of lightning, ripping through the air, is another's passing glare. Hardly there. — Kate Tempest

We have all been processed on Procrustean beds. At least some of us have managed to hate what they have made of us. Inevitably we see the other as the reflection of the occasion of our own self-division. The others have become installed in our hearts, and we call them ourselves. Each person, not being himself either to himself or the other, just as the other is not himself to himself or to us, in being another for another neither recognizes himself in the other, nor the other in himself. Hence being at least a double absence, haunted by the ghost of his own murdered self, no wonder modern man is addicted to other persons, and the more addicted, the less satisfied, the more lonely. — R.D. Laing

Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it ... — Dennis Overbye

Dare we ask what made you willing to suffer the furry disgrace? — Shannon Messenger