coping mechanisms quotes

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?