Quotes About Coping

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was.

Grief doesn't split.

My Latin is very beat up," Thomas Hudson said. "Along with my Greek, my English, my head, and my heart. All I know how to speak now is frozen daiquiri. ¿Tú hablas frozen daiquiri tú?

I drink a little now once in a while, just to drive the wolf out of the room

You saw fear and apprehension. The fear was made by what he had been through. The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined.

There is no way for you to get what you need and you will never have what you want again. But there are various palliative measures you should take. Go ahead. Take one.

You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.

Un uomo intelligente a volte è costretto a ubriacarsi per passare il tempo tra gli idioti.

Quando le cose vanno bene e sei tu a sentirti giù di corda, un bicchiere può parti sentir meglio. Ma quando sono le cose ad andar male e tu bene, un bicchiere non può far altro che chiarirti ulteriormente il concetto.

fear has a direct object, anxiety is fear without an object. We experience anxiety when we feel overwhelmed by life. In order to reduce our anxiety, we often create smaller and smaller boundaries to give us some sense of control over our lives.

For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN WE ARE FEELING BAD

For me, at least, half of dealing with grief is trying to figure out what I'm supposed to show the outside world.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?" "It's the only way we know how to love.

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Ludzie (...) lubi? wymy?la? potwory i potworno?ci. Sami sobie wydaj? si? wtedy mniej potworni (...) Wtedy jako? l?ej im si? robi na sercu. I ?atwiej im ?y?.

I was deprived of the ability to feel so I wouldn't be able to feel how dreadfully vile is that vileness, so I wouldn't retreat from it, wouldn't run horror-stricken from it. Yes, I was stripped of feelings. But not utterly. Whoever did it made a botch of it, Yen.

A la gente le gusta inventarse monstruos y monstruosidades. Entonces se parecen menos monstruos a sí mismos. [...]Entonces, como que se les quita un peso de encima. Y les resulta más fácil vivir.

Si te van a colgar, pide un vaso de agua. Nunca se sabe qué puede pasar mientras te lo traen.

I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.

We all have our own special brand of pain and hurt.