Quotes About Coping

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left.

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

It's kind of like a grief, and it's not a puzzle that you're supposed to work out on your own

If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.

Di le preguntaba algo sobre ellos me decía solamente que ya no quedaba nadie y que si se permitía experimentar toda la tristeza que eso le provocaba, nunca podría volver a funcionar como una persona normal.

Si le preguntaba algo sobre ellos me decía solamente que ya no quedaba nadie y que si se permitía experimentar toda la tristeza que eso le provocaba, nunca podría volver a funcionar como una persona normal.

sabe qué le digo? Que ahora mismo ya tengo bastante superadas las pequeñas decepciones de la vida.

I guess people do have different ways of dealing with stuff,' she said diplomatically, 'but you can't run away for ever.

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

She might scream when the nightmares found her, but not by choice, not when she was awake.

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

Labels make death and disease easier to handle. They apply makeup to tragedy's face.

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less we are able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is.

Depressive episodes closed around him like curtains and could hang there for weeks.

Isn't it amazing in life how one minute you are devastated by some news, but then, a few seconds later, your desperate need to survive at any price kicks in and you can find some way to turn it around in your head?

He hadn't been anything but tired and scared for six months and he'd lost a lot, mostly people, and seen far too much, but he was breathing in and breathing out, some kind of choice all by itself.

Chris focused not on the "What happened?" but on the "What now?" "Before a catastrophe, we can't imagine coping with the burdens that might confront us in a dire moment. Then when that moment arrives, we suddenly find that we have resources inside us that we knew nothing about

Any behavior we resort to in order to avoid feeling what we are really feeling in any given moment is an addiction.

When the heart Is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind From the good old sea blow in To bathe the wound with salt And let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird lean in the hole and sing A simple song like a tiny bell And let it ring Let it go. Let it out. Let it all unravel. Let it free and it can be A path on which to travel.