Emotional Wounds Quotes

“But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.”
― Katie Kacvinsky

“Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time to be restored. Imprints of past traumas do not mean a person cannot change their future beliefs and behaviors. as people, we do not easily forget. However, as we heal, grieve, and let go, we become clear-minded and focused to live restore and emotionally healthy.”
― Dee Brown, Breaking Passive-Aggressive Cycles

“Self-destructiveness may be a primary form of communication for those who do not yet have ways to tame their excruciating inner conflicts and feelings and who cannot yet turn to others for support.”
― James A. Chu, Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders

“Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.”
― Vanna Bonta, Shades of the World

“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”
― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

“I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams

“Emotional abuse can leave a victim feeling like a shell of a person, separated from the true essence of who they naturally are. It also leads to a victim feeling tormented and tortured by their own emotions.”
― Lorraine Nilon, Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse

“This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade. In it I saw myself as unbreakable, as tender as stone. At first I merely believed this, until one day it became the truth. Then I was able to tell myself, without lying, that it didn't affect me, that he didn't affect me, because nothing affected me. I didn't understand how morbidly right I was. How I had hollowed myself out. For all my obsessing over the consequences of that night, I had misunderstood the vital truth: that its not affecting me, that was its effect.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Stop thirsting for things that are bitter,
Go crazy here, here in these arms that are still
Wrapped around the absent shape of you,
Go crazy with me, thrash about in our bed
And weep and wail and call me by her name,
At least have the courage to let our hearts break together.”
― Patricia Smith Breakdown

“Your pain needs to be recognized and acknowledged. It needs to be acknowledged and then released. Avoiding pain is the same as denying it.”
― Yong Kang Chan, Parent Yourself Again: Love Yourself the Way You Have Always Wanted to Be Loved

“I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth....”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“I’ve always felt safer at night. You can be much more forgiving of yourself, not to mention the world and everyone in it, when your shortcomings aren’t threatened by the brazen light of day. And by shortcomings, I mean damage. The scars are still there, but at least they're easier to hide. I never understood why they shine a fluorescent spotlight in the faces of alleged culprits in old movies to get them to tell the truth. Put me to bed and turn off the lights. I’ll tell you everything. I’ll be who you want me to be, I’ll be honest. I’ll be who I want to be, I’ll be braver. Just don’t ignore me. I really do want to be stronger, sweeter, less afraid all the time. Maybe it’s a within-the-womb thing, but it’s safer in the dark. What they should really warn you about is the light.”
― Anne Clendening

“Your wholeness will be uncomfortable to those who've grown accustomed to brokenness.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises”
― Munia Khan

“Soul Abuse is the destruction of a victim's awareness of the strength within their soul. It stems from the abuser's intention to corrupt another's understanding of their own significance.  ”
― Lorraine Nilon, Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of paedophilic abuse

“Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Art of Neuroscience in Everything

“Emotional wounds stop feeling like black holes we must avoid sitting with at all costs for fear that we will be swallowed up in the pain of them forever. They instead offer a golden thread to follow, like a distant trail of stars in the velvet night sky, navigating us towards a more integrated understanding of ourselves. We need to go to the places inside us we try to escape from.”
― Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic

“Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“I go through my days quietly
trying not to make waves
but one whisper creates ripples in the sleeping sea
don't make a sound I say
too late
it's awake
--tsunami”
― Alisha Christensen, Still Growing Wildflowers

“You do not get to pick and choose
the parts of me that you love
as if you're picking petals from a flower
love me
love me not
love this
not that
throwing the down on the grass while I'm asking
do you love me
do you love me
do you love me yet
by the time you are done pulling at the core
there is nothing left for you to love anymore”
― Alisha Christensen, Still Growing Wildflowers

“About 98% of the women I coach are sensually shutdown. It’s not that they don’t want to experience extraordinary love, they can’t because they have deep unhealed wounds.”
― Lebo Grand

“The thing I feared the most was the network of unexplored crevices in my dark mind . . . because perhaps, there was no such thing as a good witch.”
― Laura C. Reden, Dark Reflections

“I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Keep smiling a Situation is no more to recover if it already happens, we can fix it or glue it together, but it's never again as it has been through the nasty experience and that will give emotional damage.”
― Jan Jansen Easy Branches

“How was I supposed to know
that slamming doors was saying goodbye
you did it all the time
and he still let you home
how was I to know
that your love
was not a map to follow”
― Alisha Christensen, The Lovers

“I realized that feeling isolated while with someone is the worst kind of loneliness.”
― Laura James, Odd Girl Out By Laura James, Neurotribes By Steve Silberman, Autism By Jessie Hewitson 3 Books Collection Set

“The greatest misunderstanding that we confront every day in the mental health arena is thinking all emotional wounds are trauma.
The greatest risk we face is not knowing that we can play an active role in our healing no matter the size of the wound.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath: A Systemic Approach to Understanding and Treating Trauma Disorders

“Some emotional scars hurt more than others. They eat into one’s soul and will never fully heal. Perhaps the scars are too deep by nature, or people who slashed at one’s heart are too dear.”
― Nastaran Aghajani, The Blue Susurration

“Our mythology is full of heroic adventures—mountains climbed, ogres fought, dragons defeated—but it takes even more courage for a man to speak his emotional truths.”
― James Hollis, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men