Quotes About Coping

Sara was beginning to understand just how hard it was to be strong for everyone else around you when all you really wanted to do was curl up into a ball and be comforted yourself.

When your father died, I remember standing at his grave and thinking, This is the place where I can leave my grief. It wasn't immediately, of course, but I had somewhere to go, and every time I visited the cemetery, I felt like when I got back into my car, a tiny little bit of grief was gone.

She had the rest of her life to think about hoe lonely she was. What she needed to do right now was get trough today. Or at least the next hour.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, "Must get on with the tea.

Jackson had never really seen the point of existential angst. If you didn't like something you changed it and if you couldn't change it you sucked it up and soldiered on, one foot after the other. ("Remind me not to come to you for therapy," Julia said.)

how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.