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Quotes About Coping

Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.
~ E. Jean Carroll
When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
~ Ellen Hopkins
My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
~ John Hurt
When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.
~ Nicholas Evans
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
~ Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that's when the darkness takes over.
~ Amanda Palmer
You either get life or you don't, and if you don't - life gets you.
~ Bert Convy
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
~ Christian Marclay
Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.
~ Cornelia Meigs
I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.
~ Eddie Vedder
It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
~ Eric Heiden
Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.
~ Nora Roberts
Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.
~ Patti Page
The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.
~ Simone Elkeles
In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
~ Tina Fey
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.
~ Henry Taylor
I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
~ Mike Mills
He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Choice