Coping Strategy Quotes

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.

Optimism is my best defense.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.

I'd like to curl up in a ball like Hillary [Clinton]said she would but she is out. And I think we all have to go do that. The fact of the matter is we don't have the luxury of pulling back from this.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.