Quotes About Coping

Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened. Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. That was the business of hiding a Jew.

Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.

She could have shot herself, scratched herself, or indulged in other forms of self-mutilation, but she chose what she probably felt was the weakest option—to at least endure the discomfort of the weather.

As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. It keeps me sane. It helps me cope,...

Ahí radicaba el problema. La vida había dado un giro de ciento ochenta grados y, sin embargo, era esencial que actuaran como si nada hubiera ocurrido. Imagínate que tienes que sonreír después de recibir un bofetón. Y luego imagínate que tienes que hacerlo las veinticuatro horas del día.

No," I tell him, "I won't. I won't be okay just for the sake of it. Not anymore.

But I keep going because I've learned over the past few months that as bad as things seem, they can always get worse.

I said, Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

Frightened people often hide behind anger.

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

That left denial. If he pretended that he didn't have it, he could ignore the ways it was affecting his life. Denial sounded good.

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something—anything—before it is all gone. —John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

We all learn to bury a broken heart beneath layers of dignity

When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us.

Life so often becomes a determined, relentless avoidance of pain - of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain has to be acknowledged and even touched so that one can move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

She had held her life to an even keel by killing all deep feeling, by living upon the surface of life.

One of the most horrible realities about the death of someone closely related, she remembered, was the necessity of going on almost immediately with the trivialities of living. As though nothing of any real significance had changed.

She was not even sure herself why she had wept. It just seemed to her in a moment of painful clarity that she had never learned how to cope with life and that she had dragged her children into her own helpless darkness. And so the cycle would be perpetuated. . . .

Viscount Darleigh was charming as well as handsome, and he had the uncanny ability to look in the direction of the person who was speaking almost as if he could see that person. He moved about with the aid of a cane but with surprising confidence. It was clear that he had learned how to cope with his blindness at least within the confines of his own home.

If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.

They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it was an insignificant event. Just a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. That Worse Things had happened. That Worse Things kept happening. But they would find no comfort in the thought.

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened.

Medicine's ground state is uncertainty. And wisdom—for both patients and doctors—is defined by how one copes with it. This

Mainstream doctors are turned off by geriatrics, and that's because they do not have the faculties to cope with the Old Crock," Felix Silverstone