Inspiring Quotes that Describe Life After Trauma
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Quotes about how things often really are, can help me feel validated, not as alone, and help me think.
If they help you too, please add the quotes that help you. Thank you.
"Stop: it can't be true, right? This type of real doesn't happen to you, right?"
- Atmosphere, "That Night"
"The leaves of memory seemed to make mournful rustling in the dark."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I cannot be who I was then: in a way, I never was."
- Johnny Cash
"More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself."
- Chuck Palahniuk, "Choke"
"All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
- James Thurber
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place."
- Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity"
"One of these days, I'm going to lose control, sign up for every social media platform on the internet, and show everyone everything."
- Allie Brosh
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
- E.E. Cummings
"I am twenty and I am already exhausted."
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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@wontsleepwontwake I love the "I am twenty and already exhausted" one! These are all great ! thank you!
@patientDime3940 - So glad you enjoyed them and related to them, thank you for your support! <3
And the time came when the pain to remain tight in the bud became greater than the risk it took to blossom ~ Anais Nin
@Compassionatelistener108 Oh nice and very apt when it comes to deciding whether to remain stuck and fearful or whether to go with those fears and overcome them, when it comes to trauma healing 
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus
"I have woven a parachute out of everything broken."
- William Stafford
"There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?" - Dan Chaon
@wontsleepwontwake this is so me...I dunno who I really am any more .. irony is my mum said that to me the other day :/
"Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. ..." - Nikita Gill
"The rest of you moves onward, dealing with all the todays and tomorrows, but something, some part of you, is left behind. That part blocks the light, colours the rest of your life, but worse than that: it's alive. Trapped forever at that moment, and alone in the dark, that part of you is still alive." - Michael Marshall Smith
holy mother of all children. . . . that qoute cut through me and hit me at my core. That was beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.
@LindseyLobotomy - <3