Quotes About Coping

Instead, she did what she'd always done in the face of a painful rejection: she disappeared and held her tongue and waited

I used to think that memories were less painful when you held them close. I think perhaps that isn't true, though. Now I think pain loses its power when we share it.

Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Own the sadness, don't let it own you.

If there was one thing their family dynamics proved, it was that everyone managed trauma differently. They all had their own ways of getting by.

none of us get through life unscathed…We all have to find a way to live with pain without letting it define us.

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

Suddenly Elena wished that Stefan wasn't the type of boyfriend to give her space.  She wished that he was here with her.  Come to think of it, if they were all grieving for the same person, why shouldn't he be with her?  Why had he run away instead of staying to support her?

Katherine, after all, had a way of turning all her feelings into food for the demons.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh.

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

My mind is a bad neighborhood that I try not to go into alone.

The usual things helped: some distance, prayer, chocolate.

Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

Sometimes there is not always a cure.

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge