Quotes About Coping

could you have so little strength that you take pride in displaying your sorrow

the more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation.

She did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head thus in order to alleviate the weight on her heart.

When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac.

I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning and thunder, or the true love you won't ever have. Life is brushing your teeth and making breakfast for your children and not thinking about things, and as it turns out, Sally is first-rate at all of this. She gets things done and done on time.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous

I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

Isabel remembered what books had meant to her so long ago, and she suddenly had a longing for all those fictional worlds that had helped her through the worst years of her life.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

A lot of people don't know what to do about grief. I don't blame you for a thing.

If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after . They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.

I don't make all the decisions, you know," Isabelle managed to say. "I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Writers don't choose their craft; they need to write in order to face the world.

Cover up grief and it grinds away at you from the inside out. It makes you run for dark corners and empty rooms heartsick and mute despising your own company.

Some people believe that if you don't open your eyes to sorrow and you don't talk about it, you can pretend it never happened.

Some creatures do not care how polite a person might be, they will hurt you for no reason, and then all you can do is heal yourself with whatever ingredients are necessary.

Sometime after the accident, her parents stopped talking to each other unless they needed to discuss a household chore or a doctor's appointment. It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.

People have private places in their minds, Jason Grey said. That doesn't mean they're crazy. It doesn't even mean they're cowards if they run from something awful.

It's amazing what you can block out when you really try. Although some things stay with you no matter what they affect everything that you do.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous, even if the person in question is a girl who has recently turned twelve.

We discover that we are no longer compelled to follow the former pattern of disappointment, suppression of pain, and depression, since we now have another possibility of dealing with disappointment: namely, experiencing the pain. In this way we at last gain access to our earlier experiences—to the parts of ourselves and our fate that were previously hidden from us.

she belittles her feelings to protect herself, and either does not become aware of them at all, or does so only several days after they have already passed.

Gradually, she realizes how she is forced to look for distraction when she is moved, upset, or sad. (When a six-year-old's mother died, his aunt told him: "You must be brave; don't cry;