Quotes About Trauma

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

No one warrior, no protestor, no member of the silent majority walked away from the Vietnam war unscathed.

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war that threaten to steal a man's soul.

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.

PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

I will follow anyone...And remind everyone...Of enslaved Yazidi women...Raped...And forced...To donate blood to ISIS men...

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE RAPE OF THE YAZIDI WOMEN

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.