Quotes About Coping

My life sucks when I'm only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it's really like, I'd probably jump off a bridge.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

You shouldn't carry the weight of it. Be sad, be sorry - but don't shoulder it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

But you can be talky and paint your fingernails and still be very sad. In fact, you can be talky and paint your fingernails to protect other people from how sad you are.

Do you understand, Cady? Silence is a protective coating over pain.

Be sad. Be sorry. But don't shoulder it." -We Were Liars

Silence is a protective coating over pain. (p.29)

I hit my fist into the wall of the shower. I washed off the shame and anger in cold, cold water.

Be sad, be sorry - but don't shoulder it.

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...

Mostly you realize you can handle it. You'd rather turn it all upside down and dump it out and watch it scatter and disappear. You'd rather do that, because you don't want to have to handle it. You really don't. It's too stupid and crazy and incredibly, incredibly unfair. But you do handle it. Because the thing you learn is that you can.

hani bazen olur ya, a?lamak yetmez. a?laman?n hiçbir türlüsü yetmez. ba??rmak da yetmez. çekip gitmeye bile gerek yoktur. garip bir gülme kaplar gö?sünüzü. çünkü ac? öyle büyüktür ki, bedeninizi kaplar. bedeniniz ac? olur. ac? yabanc? de?ildir, batmaz. gülersiniz. gülüyorum. bütün gizlenmi?, yat??t?r?lm??, bütün yasaklanm?? gülmelerimi gülüyorum.

I divorced myself from the dead guy. I decided that life in Nam was just that way. Whatever emotions I had, needed a cement vault to hide in. And they would hide, even if I had to push them in and shut the door. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Winners got up in the morning; losers didn't.

THE majority of us are permitted to cope with the important events of our lives in a decently leisurely manner – with ample breathing-space, that is to say, in which to assimilate one shock and recuperate before the next.

Suficientes dolores y desengaños trae la vida por sí sola —suelo decirme— como para que uno por atolondrado, por pusilánime, cargue a sus espaldas desilusiones improvisadas.

Eyes blurred, she drove away. Alone, buzzing down the asphalt trail to Kayenta, heart beating, her pistons leaping madly up and down, Bonnie Abbzug relapsed into the sweet luxury of tears. Hard to see the road. She turned on the windshield wipers but that didn't help much.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

they may also be implying that making the discovery that human beings just can't cope with certain kinds of question, and making that discovery for yourself – and actually making it, rather than just lazily assuming that you know it already – isn't a valuable experience, or is an experience without effects. Surely that cannot be true?