Quotes About Coping

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

In a sense, they had committed emotional suicide in order to protect themselves from the painful truth of their experiences.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.

Si no tienes nada mejor que hacer y los problemas te están matando, consulta a las putas.

No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' " She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed him. "Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

I accepted their ridicule by sulking manfully.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.

So many things were easier to live with if you didn't give them much thought. p. 28

But if she let go of her anger, all that would remain was grief and pain. Anger was easier. Anger could be focused outward. Grief corroded from within.

I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

I do not think you should be alone with this sort of grief. But he was wrong. Grief makes its own solitude, and I knew that I must endure it.

For a time I tried to bolster myself with anger, but my despair was too clammy and dark a thing for anger's flames to overcome.

There isn't much in a man's head that can't be cured by working and taking care of something else

I can see that this hurts you. You should fix it. You can't make it unhappen, but you don't have to carry around what they did to you. Don't give them that power over you.

Amazing what folk will take comfort in when there's nothing else to hold on to.

Some things cannot be solved," he pointed out philosophically. "Drink makes those things much more tolerable.

When you can either laugh or cry, you might as well laugh