Quotes About Coping

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Creo que todos soñamos. ¿Cómo, si no, conseguir a veces que la vida resulte soportable?

If living were the right word. It had been a suspended life. She had worn black for Teddy inside and out. And somehow it had become a comfortable way of life. While part of her yearned for gaiety and a renewal of life, the other part clung to its cocoon. It was safer to remain inside it. It was less likely that she would have to experience again the pain of losing someone around whom her life had come to revolve.

She found his coldness and his anger easier to cope with than the melancholy and near tenderness that drink had induced in him that night. It had taken all her willpower in the hours following the ball not to allow the reserve she had built around herself in six years to crumble away. But she had held on and would continue to do so, perhaps, if she could just stay away from him.

It was hard to cope with pain, she was finding, by telling oneself that the joy preceding it had made it worthwhile.

Sometimes . . . life seems hardly worth living, does it, sir? If it were not for billiards, Sir Barry said, I might consider shooting myself, m'boy.

Get angry, Elizabeth. Curse him. Yell. But don't keep on grieving like this. Please, love.

I had to forget you, force you from my thoughts and my heart. I could not have stayed sane else.

It is what we do with the pain, though, how we allow it to shape our character and actions and relationships that matters.

We are none of us born into Eden, Doc said reasonably. world's plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what's the best way to play a bad hand?...

Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life's normal condition. So, as the first weeks after the massacre passed, she simply counted herself lucky to be among others who did not weep and wail for the dead.

I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell. Feelings are facts," she said, her voice a little hard, as she began to walk again. "Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If

Of course, Veronica had a lot of smart cracks stored up. She needed them. When she didn't have them, she was naked and everybody saw.

I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice.

Maggy's diagnosis earlier in the year with juvenile onset type 1 diabetes had thrown them

When tears come, I breathe deeply and rest. I know I am swimming in a hallowed stream where many have gone before. I am not alone, crazy, or having a nervous breakdown . . . My heart is at work. My soul is awake.

When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine — like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.