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Quotes About Coping

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
~ Christian Bale
I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.
~ Mark Twain
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
~ Bill Watterson
I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.
~ Bobby Womack
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.
~ Barry Bonds
The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.
~ Katie Couric
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.
~ Geoff Dyer
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
~ Carrie Fisher
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
~ Ernest Cline
I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.
~ Martin Short
There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
~ Raymond Carver
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
~ Karl A. Menninger
I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
~ Tony Curtis
When life gives you lemons, throw them back.
~ Joe Jonas
Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.
~ Philippos Syrigos
My unhappiness protects me from life.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
~ Bill Forsyth
Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.
~ Joan Rivers
Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
~ John Travolta