Quotes About Coping

Not that I've ever had much use for reality—having spent much of what I laughingly refer to as my adult life attempting to escape it with the assistance of a variety of drugs.)

What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?

Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

cope or go crazy

That's how it is, he told himself. If you dread something enough, even your worst fears coming true brings comfort.

I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...

can still smile sometimes, but by the time this thing is over I may not be a nice person. And I just lit my seventy-seventh cigarette of this 21-hour day. I'm going to lay down for two or three hours, perhaps I'll sleep … Seize the Time.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

The world is full of horrors, Tommen. You can fight them, or laugh at them, or look without seeing...

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

That's what they always ended up saying: "But I'm just sad." Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I'm not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.

All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.

The aim of therapy is to convert neurotic suffering into ordinary human misery.

FOREVER. Eighteen years is a long way from forever. He had so much life ahead of him. And it's not as if he died in isolation. The dreams of all of the people who loved him died with him. His parents might learn to cope with his loss, but they will never recover.

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

Survival requires that we learn to laugh things off and start over

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.