Quotes About Coping

Don't tell me it wasn't my fault; that's no damn good to me. Just tell me how to keep from going crazy, will you? Just tell me how to survive.

some things could never be anticipated, but he could control the way he reacted to them.

I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I am lying to myself. I have feared writing. But books have saved me sometimes, that is the truth - my Samaritans.

I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made up of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.

There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity — pushes off hope like a boat without a rower, and lets it go as it will on the stream, and resigns himself to the tally stick of pain.

How difficult it is to live.

know that loss, and losing someone or something very important in my life, can seem unfair in every way. So I choose to do my best to accept the truth of my loss, continue to trust in a brighter, more sensible day to come, have the patience to wait for the sunrise, and believe with all my heart that the light is coming.

I'm down here, trying to live, trying to deal with the real world, while you're hiding, bitching, fucking everyone's shit up but your own, so shut up, just shut the fuck up. Thirty-two million copies, thirty-two million copies, that's what you got for your pain. What do I get for mine? What does anyone get for theirs? Nothing, not a fucking thing, they get another goddamned day of it and another goddamned day of it after that, so just shut up, will you? Will you just shut up?

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

Hope had beaten her to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier not to feel.

I've said that all along. Sick. In. The. Head.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn't keep pouring from the pitcher.

and my job is to eat the whole car of my anger, part by part, some parts ground down to steel-dust.

Thank you, no," Zoe said, speaking with an effort. "If I have something to occupy my hands, perhaps my heart won't hurt quite so much.

Flickorna återvände hem och berättade för Minette att det nog var allra bäst om hon försökte glömma honom. Och när hennes tårar började flöda denna gång gjorde de ingenting för att hindra henne.

If you suffer misfortune … do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.