Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Our bodies are the texts that carry the memories and therefore remembering is no less than reincarnation.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Memories
  • Movies
  • Dreams

• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Memories
  • Lifetime
  • Regrets

• Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Men
  • Parents

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Night
  • Effort
  • Winning

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Home
  • Age
  • Feeling

• One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Funny
  • Best
  • Memories

• I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't miss 'Monday Night Football.' I just don't miss it. I'm lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn't miss it. I feel blessed that it's not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.

  

  Don Meredith
  • Great
  • Night
  • Football

• 'Firefly' was and always will be such a positive thing for me. I hold a lot of really good memories associated to that show.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Good
  • Positive
  • Memories

• As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Trying
  • Age
  • Dad

• My dad leaving my life. That's the biggest thing that happened to me. I just remember what he tells me, the memories, and try to move on forward each day, knowing that he's still here, looking down on me.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dad

• History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Live
  • History
  • Past

• Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Experience
  • Past
  • Imagination

• My first Ramones show was at a small club in Columbus, Ohio, in 1978. It was a transformative experience, even though my memories are a little blurry, since someone kicked me in the head halfway through the show, probably during 'Beat on the Brat.'

  

  Derf
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Memories

• With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

  

  Ken Watanabe
  • Memories

• Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Vision
  • Memories

• Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Memories
  • Grunge

• If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Me
  • Friend

• This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Future
  • Monster

• Lena made a face. She almost never wore makeup; she didn't have to. "You know, it's not like we all sign a contract with Maybelline when we turn thirteen.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • She
  • Makeup

• It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Art
  • Friends
  • Imaginary

• No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Dangerous
  • Atheist
  • Arrogant

• Our bodies are the texts that carry the memories and therefore remembering is no less than reincarnation.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Memories
  • Bodies
  • Reincarnation