Quotes About Coping

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

Even if you sulk after a failure, you have to put on that exterior that you are fine. You could be going through a series of nonsense in your personal life or failure in your professional life, but you have to put on that exterior.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

With a progressive issue, it was always a monkey that was chasing me down. I had a great fear of losing my hearing. In my gut, I always knew that it was going to happen. I was just hoping that it would happen when I was 50 and not when I was 18.

I can go days without eating if I don't think about food. Your mind, to protect itself, learns not to pay attention to that hunger feeling.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life - and that proved hard. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.

After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.

You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.

A heart can be broken but it keeps on beating just the same ~ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Should we reason our way out of sadness ? But why, when reasoning requires effort ? And the sad man lacks the necessary energy to make any effort at all.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

You can always do something that can make you feel good about your life despite what you're going through.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

But when I'm nervous, I deflect a lot and it's very easy to fill the space with jokes.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.