Quotes About Coping

Suicide is a solution. No matter what anyone tells you, suicide does solve problems; at least, it solves your problems. And if you succeed, it solves them once and for all.

God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat.

People who are too sensitive go crazy, remember that

cling to—they have little else to cling to.

That was the last day I lived in my body. I retreated above the neck, and lived inside the fire in my head ever since.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

when the unwanted Guest Arrives i might be afraid i might be smile or say : my day was good let night fall

Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can

wept in the way that women do when their hearts are too full with sorrow of their life and spilled and running over and they care no more except they must be eased somehow because all of life is too heavy for them.

Each day, we're given many opportunities to open up or shut down. The most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we think we can't handle whatever is happening. It's too much. It's gone too far. We feel bad about ourselves. There's no way we can manipulate the situation to make ourselves come out looking good. No matter how hard we try, it just won't work. Basically, life has just nailed us.

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

I find anger so comforting. It's like a blanket made of unresolved issues, but it's a blanket none the less.

We can get angry: it's even healthy to get angry from time to time.

OBVIOUSLY YOU STRIKE OUTAGAINST PEOPLE WITHIN RANGE.IT'S CATHARTIC TO AFFECTSOMEONE WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.ALTERNATIVELY, CHOOSEENEMIES IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAYSO YOU NEVER HAVE TO FIGHT.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.