Quotes About Coping

When we go through being rejected and abandoned like I did as a kid, you have a lot of fear and anxiety issues that you didn't even know that's what it was defined as. You live your life a lot of times living with the ghost of fear.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.

When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.

I was in a bad shape after missing out on my army dream. What I couldn't say and express to everybody, stage gave me the space to release.

All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live within my pain, or live within my sadness, I try to be funny and look at things with a funny view.

It's okay to be sad if things don't go the way you had hoped.

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

People are obviously capable of handling the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. But I don't know how many people have had to experience them within seconds of each other.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

The ability to deal with pressure is hugely important.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.

To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.