Quotes About Coping

Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

If I had a tumor, I'd name it Marla.

T]he only way a person had to process an experience so troubling was by sharing it.

Cadavez que el avión se ladeaba en exceso al despegar o al aterrizar, rezaba para que nos estrellásemos.

We laugh so that we don't scream.

Things happen in this life. Sometimes they're good things, and sometimes they're bad things. You have to come to terms with the bad things, especially when you can't change them.

one of the truest things about people is that they will laugh in the face of terror, tragedy, and sadness

Most people laughed, and they did so sincerely, because one of the truest things about people is that they will laugh in the face of terror, tragedy, and sadness.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay.

It's a prison. It's twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can do, all day long, is look for ways to survive. Nobody needs to teach us tricks. We brainstorm our own tricks all day long. When real anorexics compare notes, we've already figured out all the same tricks—and each one of us did it on our own.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

She pushed the plantation from her again. She was getting better at it. Her mind was wily though, twisty. Thoughts she did not like wormed in from the sides, from beneath, through the cracks, from places she had battened down.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

On visiting day, he told her he was okay but sad, it was difficult but he was hanging in there, when all he wanted to say was, Look at what they did to me, look at what they did to me.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch?

She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.

Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.

I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour.

a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it.

Thank heaven, Sigmund Freud was spared knowing the concentration camps from the inside. His subjects lay on a couch designed in the plush style of Victorian culture, not in the filth of Auschwitz.