Quotes About Coping

For the next two years, singing was the only time I didn't stutter. I sang for everything I wanted, like some Disney princess making a wish.

After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.

Why does the threat of violent death alter some of us, even if subtly, forever? Why does it make us unusually numb or calm when we ought to feel terrified? Why do scents or sounds trigger in some of us a feeling of terror or unbearable dread, even in situations where we know, at least, intellectually, that we are perfectly safe?

when it comes to coping with evil, ignorance is our worst enemy.

It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

šiaip ar taip, aš jau sp?jau štai k? pasteb?ti: siaub? galima pakelti, kol tu pasiduodi savo likimui, bet jis tave nužudo, jeigu tik imi apie j? galvoti.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor; we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

Terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks; - but it kills, if a man thinks about it.

the shelling is stronger than everything. It wipes out the sensibilities, I merely crawl still farther under the coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it.

Gândurile nu pot tr?i f?r? mângâiere È™i am?gire;se z?p?cesc în faÈ›a imaginii nude a disper?rii.

Das Grauen läßt sich ertragen, solange man sich einfach duckt; aber es tötet, wenn man darüber nachdenkt

There is nothing he likes more than just hearing about it. I realize he does not know that a man cannot talk of such things; I would do it willingly, but it is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them. What would become of us if everything that happens out there were quite clear to us?

we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We have to take things as lightly as we can, so we make the most of every opportunity, and nonsense stands stark and immediate beside horror. It cannot be otherwise, that is how we hearten ourselves

I soon found out this much:--terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;--but it kills, if a man thinks about it.

We became hard, suspicious, pitiless, vicious, tough-- and that was good; for these attributes were just what we lacked. Had we gone into the trenches without this period of training most of us would certainly have gone mad. Only thus were we prepared for what awaited us.

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Aber niemand hat uns in der Schule beigebracht, wie man bei Regen und Sturm eine Zigarette anzündet, wie man ein Feuer aus nassem Holz machen kann - oder dass man ein Bajonett am besten in den Bauch stösst, weil es da nicht festklemmt wie bei den Rippen.

Cik labi, ja cilv?kam ir cigaretes. Sm??is dažk?rt ir pat lab?ks nek? draugi. Cigaretes nemulsina. T?s ir m?mas un labas.

to say that their mental health is not being undermined by bombing is to talk nonsense.

You see, amnesia is usually the result of mental unbalance. It's an attempt on the part of the mind to escape from something that the mind either can't cope with or doesn't want to cope with. It's a refuge. It's the means a man uses to close the door of his mind on something that may lead to insanity.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

If repression makes an untenable life liveable, self-knowledge can entirely destroy it for some people.