Quotes About Coping

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

Kid, I can handle anything but the middle of the night.

So I'm not crazy?" "No. Your brain is doing exactly what you would expect it to do considering what you lived through.

We need to understand that victims of trauma are more prone to all forms of addiction because their baseline of stress is different.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance.

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive

Mikal sintió un dolor que no podía soportar. Puso su mano en el fuego hasta que el dolor de su cuerpo forzó a remitir el dolor de su corazón. Entonces retiró la mano, la frotó y se preguntó por qué las heridas internas no podían curarse con tanta facilidad.

Or maybe laughter was how they pushed painful memories out of their minds. Perhaps laughter was the only way they could keep from killing each other.

Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

Odd that your heart didn't simply stop when it hurt so much.

Manchmal hilft es, wütend zu werden, wenn man vor Traurigkeit nicht ein noch aus weiß.

A veces, cuando uno no sabe qué hacer, un buen enfado ayuda.

How was she supposed to deal with a child? She could hardly manage to keep her own painful heart together.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

In the end, there was always your regular life, and no one could deal with it but you.

It's good on the other side, but it's good on your side too. Enjoy it there. The loneliness is harder, and the loneliness is the biggest part, but some things are easier.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically .

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

Most Romans worked and played as usual while Rome fell about their ears. But surely it is fair to say that when a man becomes depressed, falls down in a sand trap, and decides to shoot himself, something has gone wrong with the man, not the world.

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

I wasn't crazy about this idea, but it seemed less complicated than suicide. All I'd have to do was sit in the dark and breathe.