My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say that I am proud of myself, so I find that I cannot 'talk about it'.

~ Jake Wood

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The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

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There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.

~ Toba Beta

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On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering

~ Frank X. Barron

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I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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I have tried to communicate my ideas in a language that preserves connections, a language that is faithful both to the dispassionate, reasoned traditions of my profession and to the passionate claims of people who have been violated and outraged. I have tried to find a language that can withstand the imperatives of doublethink and allows all of us to come a little closer to facing the unspeakable.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

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This book appears at a time when public discussion of the common atrocities of sexual and domestic life has been made possible by the women’s movement, and when public discussion of the common atrocities of political life has been made possible by the movement for human rights. I expect the book to be controversial—first, because it is written from a feminist perspective; second, because it challenges established diagnostic concepts; but third and perhaps most importantly, because it speaks about horrible things, things that no one really wants to hear about.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

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And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.

~ Joseph Conrad

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There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

~ Toba Beta

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Unspeakable feelings need to find expression in words. However... verbalization of very intense feelings may be a difficult task.

~ James A. Chu

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Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

~ Leonard Baskin

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