Quotes About Coping

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Humor was a good way to hide the pain.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

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

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

My experience is to deal with things through humor.

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.