Quotes About Coping

To pass over grief, they say, the Italian sleeps; the Frenchman sings; the German drinks; the Spaniard laments, and the Englishman goes to plays. What then does the Scot?' To Jerott's mind sprang, unbidden, a picture of the sword Archie Abernethy was trying to clean at this moment below. 'This one,' he said, 'kills.

With tobacco and literature one could face out any situation, provided, of course, that the book was not written in an unknown tongue.

Well, well. What can't be cured must be endured. This is our last hope gone. We shall be reduced to ringing minors.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

The idea of a Universe didn't fit into their world picture, so to speak. They simply couldn't cope with it. And so, charmingly, delightfully, intelligently, whimsically if you like, they decided to destroy it.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue, apart from Don't Panic. Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seem to be more likely, consider yourself lucky that it wouldn't be for much longer.

Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with.

Do you think they're…" "Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do." "What?" "Don't think about it.

Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do.' 'What?' 'Don't think about it.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Life was, in short, ridiculously easy and for a while at least they were able to cope with the problems of aimlessness and isolation by deciding to ignore them.

?ovjek pokraj Forda se dosad ve? malo nacvrcao. O?i su mu zavijugale do Forda. Mislio sam, rekao je, da kad svijet propada treba le?i na pod i staviti papirnatu kesu na glavu ili tako nešto. Ako ho?ete, možete, re?e Ford. Tako su nam rekli u vojsci, rekao je ?ovjek, a o?i su mu krenule na dug put natrag do njegovog viskija. To ?e pomo?i?, upita barmen. Ne, rekao je Ford im prijateljski se osmjehnuo.

Can't take it, huh?" said the man. Without the slightest movement he was now back, sitting cross-legged, on top of the pole forty feet in front of Arthur. "You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh? Well, business as usual, I suppose." He sighed and squinted mournfully into the distance.

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist.

If suicide is your idea of escape from trouble then it doesn't very much matter what the trouble is.

suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back...

Sorrow for a person is different—one can't put that behind one. But one can get over shock and horror by just not letting your mind dwell on it all the time.

I have learned to save myself useless emotion

Real grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope.

To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.

Stress is poison.