Quotes About Coping

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.

She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.

Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.

Many of us deal badly with our pain or our need to feel as if we are in control of the world, even if we cannot control ourselves.

sufrimiento no disminuye solo porque lo hayas sentido antes. Es nuevo cada vez, y corta con el mismo filo vivo. —¿Qué

the truth the less able you were to cope with it when it finally broke through all the barriers, like a dammed river, and carried away the careful structure of your life with it.

I told myself anything I needed to keep my sanity.

Anger is too painful for me. Anger is too pathetic. I cannot hear it. I cannot act upon it.

I don't think you can feel sheer panic continuously. Your mental system breaks down. It comes in waves, and you have to tell yourself, well, this will end.

Which was how she often did after flare-ups—pretending nothing had happened.

best cure for grief was shopping, especially for things to wear.

Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same. Barking spiders, she muttered softly

I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.

One thing I had learned from medicine, however, was that denial was often a good strategy; it could buy time for wounds to heal themselves.

All coping does is waste your time and misdirect your energy. If the best you can do is cope, you're better off quitting.

Quitting is better than coping because quitting frees you up to excel at something else.

We're extremely adroit at hiding our fear. Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we're afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.

Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we're afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.

Quitting is better than coping because quitting frees you up to excel at something else. "Never

I wonder at how many of us, feeling unsafe and unprotected, either end up running far away from everything we know and love, or staying and simply going mad. I have decided today that neither option is more or less noble than the other. They are merely different ways of coping, and we each must cope as best we can.

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

I have often found anger more comfortable than fear. Anger gives me the illusion of control, while fear leaves me naked and exposed.

I used to joke about the fact that I crammed eighty years of guilt into the first twenty years of my life. It

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.