Top 317 Traumatic Quotes & Sayings

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

Abortion is a severely traumatic and potentially dangerous procedure.

My childhood was so traumatic.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!

People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

My brother is a doctor and he will take care of post-traumatic stress. I think he'll do it for free.

I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.

I think we've reached that point where we understand medically what we are doing to ourselves with these sports. In football, it's kind of hard to get the access that you want for the story and, of course, it's very long-term: the effects of the repeat concussions really don't hit until decades afterwards, whereas the traumatic injuries in extreme sports are very immediate. I realized Traumatic Brain Injury was a fascinating and important story that not had been told very much. I wanted to know more.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

Working at Palace was one of the happiest episodes of my football career, even though the ending was one of the most upsetting and traumatic.

Changing my name was traumatic for me.

I can't imagine how traumatic it must be to have a gun pointed to your head for no reason at all.

I had never been out of the Bay Area before. It was very traumatic moving to New York.

There`s three sort of fundamental things that happen when someone`s suffering from these issues [post-traumatic stress disorder ]. First, they get intrusive thoughts.The second issue is you become startled quickly.And the third key point is it`s avoidance.Those are the three sort of pillar fundamentals of what we consider post-traumatic stress, not violence against someone who`s close to you. There`s just a huge misunderstanding.

The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.

In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

The separation from my mother at an early age was traumatic.

To live in that place where both sides could at any moment turn on you? It leaves you in a very traumatic spot.

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

Divorce is horrible, no matter who instigates it. It's very traumatic.

When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.

I find home renovations almost traumatic. But people can create something great.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.

I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

Caring for someone who is terminally ill is traumatic, but it's a privilege too. It's part of being a woman.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

I had post-traumatic stress from 'Drag Race' a little bit.

Visiting anyone post-surgery for the first time can be traumatic.

Nothing like a little post-traumatic stress disorder to make your day complete.

I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.

I had no traumatic childhood experiences.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

A break-up between couples is traumatic for everyone.

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.