Psychological Wounds Quotes

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.

When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.