Quotes About Coping

I have some anger issues.

Covid makes the job harder. But it is what it is and we have to get on with it.

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.

Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or find someone else.

When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.

I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.

I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.

All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.

Let's be honest. We all in our secret minds live elsewhere, or who could survive in this freakin' world?

The personality, in effect, is made up of one's coping repertoire and ability to adapt and therefore creates immunity to invading stressors or, in keeping with the analogy, bacteria. Throughout development, one faces crises and challenges. As development occurs, the system learns to respond, shift, adapt, and cope. However, if the system is overwhelmed by stressors insurmountable to the existing coping system, the system cannot effectively manage.

I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.