Quotes about Coping

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Other people went crazy, why couldn't she? Other people's brains stopped, turned around and went on to something new...

It's bitterness that drives you to alcohol or drugs or food or pornography or anything else as a method of coping with your season of suffering. When you've been consumed by bitterness, you develop a desire to consume anything that will get the taste out of your mouth—

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

I have changed drastically because I allow myself to not just grieve and feel down.

If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!

If we learned to float in sorrow rather than thrash about like a drowning emotional victim, We might find that it can be used to set us free.

Feeling quiet and empty, he told himself that he would be all right tomorrow. He would forgive himself the weakness of this night, it was like the tears one is permitted at a funeral, and then one learns how to live with an open wound or with a crippled factory.

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

People had to manage terrible truths.