Quotes About Coping

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

People shave their heads all the time.

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

It's difficult to feel silly and depressed at the same time, but I manage.

Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras

Katkad kažemo ubi?u se, a potom nastavimo da ?itamo knjigu.

Erkek dayanamaz ac?ya, hemen al?p baÅŸka birine okutur; ac?y? ba??ndan atmas? gerekir, atadan kalma, beylik d??avurma yollar?ndan, savaÅŸa, vahÅŸete ve ç??l?klara, aç?l?p saç?lan bir söyleme gelip dayanan gayet tan?d?k yollardan, onu silkeleyip atmas? gerekir.

Ä°nsan, hayat?ndaki her büyük olay kar??s?nda bakirdir. Ac?mla nas?l baÅŸa ç?kaca??m? bilmemekten korkuyorum.

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out. Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice.

But being a survivor is hard bloody work, harder than it looks, and I think I might be running low on survivor juice. Given the choice, I'd far rather a pampered life of indulgence where nothing bad ever happens.

Drink never drown anyone's sorrows, he went on. It only teaches them how to swim.

It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I'd be washed away in the deluge.

And what had this to do with eating too much and making herself sick? If what her counsellor Peggy said was true, she'd been doing that to change her mood. Now she had no way to alter her feelings, and she had to make sense of them again

Rage turned outward is called rage. Rage turned inward is called ulcers and cancer and things like that. The unhealthiest thing you can do with anger is to deny you have it.

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself

She was afraid to be angry and that made her angry.