Quotes About Coping

Sabía cómo se sentía: aquellas náuseas en su estómago que se extendían como el cáncer, la rabia, la impotencia y la necesidad de acurrucarse en privado y buscar la fuerza para volver a meter los recuerdos en aquel agujero profundo y oscuro donde seguían viviendo.

I ran when the going got tough, because I was so sure it was all going to end badly. The only control I had was to be the one who left, instead of the one who was left behind.

I stepped back and Gideon let me go. It was hard to watch Cary struggling. It was scary, too. He didn't handle challenges well and I was so afraid he'd slip back into familiar, self-destructive coping mechanisms. It was a threat we both faced on a daily basis. I had a group of people who kept me anchored. Cary had only me.

You smile. No, it is not fatal. --from The Other, written 2 July 1962

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, as long as I possibly could.

Det må være en god del ting et varmt bad ikke kurerer, men jeg vet ikke om mange av dem. Hver gang jeg føler meg trist fordi jeg skal dø, eller så nervøs at jeg ikke får sove, eller forelsket i noen jeg ikke kommer til å se på en uke, gir jeg etter til et visst punkt, og så sier jeg; Jeg går og tar et varmt bad.

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then say 'I'll go take a hot bath'.

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: I'll go take a hot bath.

I hate it, find it hideous, loathsome. I have built it up to a devouring, malicious monster. I am letting it ruin my whole life. My reason is leaving me, and I want to get out of this.

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: "I'll go take a hot bath.

While I do not believe that things necessarily happen for the best, I know that some people are able to make the best of things that happen.

You don't have to access the physical details to address the emotional damage within yourself. You can't escape your own experience.

Everyone was a victim of something.

It is the ability to perform for days or weeks like balanced and cheerful automata, when some substrata, something upon which our codes or our hopes had firmly rested has given way. Men who lose their wives or their God are quite capable of behaving in this manner, for an indefinite season. After which the collapse is brilliant and total.

You want to forget your pain. I mean to tell you that doing that will only cause you more hurt. - Khai

Il y a des chagrins qui vous dévorent, qui vous écrasent, et on ne peut... Eh bien, on ne peut rien y faire

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

How much bad luck could one woman take before losing touch with her soul?

I'm just in therapy to help me figure out how to cope with you!

Sure. Life is full of ups and downs, but we all know that some downs are worse than others. There are those from which we simply cannot recover. Or at least it might seem that way when we're in the depths of the worst possible scenario.

Sometimes, bad things happened. All any of us can ever do is find a way to survive, and accept the things that cannot be changed.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes...

How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.