Quotes About Coping

make grief a weapon!

If something is eating at you, you gotta find a way to use it.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube.

One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.

Laughter is like a windshield wiper, it doesn't stop the rain but allows us to keep going.

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

it's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't.

pain demands to be felt..

Only strong people can find happiness from the sadness surrounding them.

My unique brand of depression responds to stress; specifically, it blows up under stress. When the going gets tough, I don't get amped up, I get despondent

If you're depressed on top of that, and you probably are, you build those walls thicker, stronger, and higher because being let down is the only feasible outcome of a relationship.

It's so much easier when one faces facts, but then all life is largely based on an avoidance of fact, and I admit I try to avoid them. I

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots." - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium

For as much as I hate the cemetery, I've been grateful it's here, too. I miss my wife. It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.