Quotes About Coping

Q: What does the human spirit do after ten days without sleep, and ten days of isolation tempered only by nocturnal threat sessions? A: It dreams up a solution.

Es gibt keinen Kummer, über den ein Buch nicht hinwegtrösten könnte, sagte der große Dichter. Wir werden sehen.

When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.

There was no point in weeping for ever for things that you couldn't change, things you could not have. It had stood her in good stead all of her life

He was right: she'd turned a shit situation into a slurry of blood-flecked diarrhea.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Who knows what will happen if I'm alone with my grief.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Now I was beginning to understand how we could put horror in a little cubbyhole in our brains to deal with later.

Now I was beginning to understand how we can put the horror in a little cubbyhole in our brains to deal with later.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn't have to anymore.

The tears I feel today I'll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I'll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My eyes must keep their sight: I dare not be tear-blinded. I must be free to talk Not choked with grief, clear-minded. My mouth cannot betray The anguish that I know. Yes, I'll keep my tears til later: But my grief will never go.

The tears I feel today I'll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I'll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My eyes must keep their sight: I dare not be tear-blinded. I must be free to talk Not choked with grief, clear-minded. My mouth cannot betray The anguish that I know. Yes, I'll keep my tears til later: But my grief will never go.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way.

You can't just pull anger out of a hat and make it work for you. You have to feel bad first. You always have to suffer

Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.

From this study, it becomes clear that . . . good luck accumulates, as does bad luck. People are in poor health and are poverty-stricken and get let down, and vice versa. It is totally unfair. And the only real predictor of good or bad luck is the ability to deal with setbacks. Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.