Self-Soothing Quotes

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

How do I comfort myself? Well, I say, 'Life is just like that.'

When I am stressed I pluck my beard, leaving bald patches.

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

Put the kids in a cool bath, then get them to bed, then light a candle. Do whatever you need to do to ease your troubled mind.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.