Quotes About Coping

Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study.

Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.

Ii dau de lucru mintii si-ami amagesc durerea A' mele suferinte incerc sa mi le-nsel.

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

I get maudlin. Some people drink; some get depressed; some run around having sex with anyone with a pulse. Me, I get philosophical. It's healthier.

Are you all right? The question surprised Jess, and it broke through his black shell enough to make him throw a look at his friend. No. I didn't think you were. Everyone wants you to be. That must be worse, that they think you should be fine.

When I'm feeling uncomfortable, I attack. It makes people step off and gives me time to find my way.

I'm fine," I automatically tell her, because that's what I always tell her. And myself. But it doesn't take a paid psychologist to figure out that I'm not okay. I'm having flashbacks. Cold sweats. Nightmares. And now this

While I was still Gina, but after The Event, I'd taken up running, and it had been grueling and exhausting until I built up my strength. Now, when I stop holding myself back, I run like I feel breath on my neck, as if I'm running for my life. It's not healthy or safe, and I'm well aware that driving myself that hard is a form of self-punishment, and also an expression of the fear I live with every day.

you mourn, you hurt and you start to heal.

He would survive working with Helen Watt—even as the thought occurred to him, he recognized it as a stroke of genius—by pretending she was a different sort of person. He would act as though she were a woman with a sense of humor.

I'd probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn't simplify my life in every area where I do have some control.

People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.

When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception.

Life is hard in a world gone wrong.

I read to keep from being sad.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

pace the corridor back and forth until I wear the edge off my nerves or just collapse unconscious from exhaustion

He supposed he had gone somewhat mad, but a little madness was preferable to unending despair.

Denial endures because it soothes.

At last her mother looks up from the book and smiles and says, "I read to keep from being sad.

I ignored what was going on behind my back because that was the only way I could deal with it.

Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.