Quotes About Coping

Life seemed so much more manageable when you could write it down neatly on paper.

But I didn't hear her, couldn't, was already gone, turning and walking out the door with the food in my hands to the parking lot before I even knew what was happening. Over the years I had perfected removing myself from situations. It was kind of like automatic pilot; I just shut down and retreated, my brain clicking off before anything that hurt could sink in.

There is hurt here that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry.

Difficulty becomes familiar, at least, if no less difficult.

Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it—I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the warehouse of good intentions: Can't do it now. Then put it on hold. This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Izišao je iz stana svladavaju?i tugu zbog tog samotnog života. Prsni koš mu se raširio a grlo steglo. - Za ime božje, nemoj plakati, idiote jedan! Umri ili živi, ali nemoj sve zatrovati.

Hay pocas cosas que pongan con tanta seguridad de buen humor como el relato de alguna calamidad que se ha sufrido últimamente, o también la sincera confesión de una debilidad personal.

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.

You know, men do nearly all die laughing, because they know death is very terrible, and a thing to be forgotten till after it has come. T. E. LAWRENCE, IN A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER, 1916

Despite outward appearances, he hadn't gained confidence. He'd simply become desensitized to this specific type of embarrassment. He wondered if that's what all confidence was in the first place.

What do we do when it gets dark?

you are certainly wrong when you classify suicide—and suicide is what we are talking about—as any sort of great achievement, since it can be defined only as a sign of weakness. For it is certainly easier to die than to stand up to a life of torment.

You don't drink to drown your sorrows, you drink to give them mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

Sometimes we need our pain. We need it to call our own.

Prepare for the worst and you won't be disappointed.

It's odd, but people are capable of forgetting quite extraordinary occurrences very quickly if it makes them happier to do so

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People crave certainty. And control. We spend our lives erecting coping mechanisms, little games we play to preserve the illusion of safety.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.