Not Coping Quotes

#1. Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

Cathy Freeman

#2. People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.

Cary Cooper

#3. I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Sienna Miller

#4. However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

Na'ama Yehuda

#5. The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

Anthony Giddens

#6. We are all somewhat mercurial for temperament, and it is much easier to believe that all is well when the sun is shining, and yet, is not the sun always shining just behind the clouds that never last?

Grace May North

#7. What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.

Gabor Mate

#8. As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

John Ridley

#9. Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Monica Raymund

#10. Overcopulation
The Main Street Babbitts
are fucking like rabbits,
competing and coping
in a crowded place,
overeating and moping,
bleating and hoping,
it's not the end
of the human race.

Beryl Dov

#11. ... depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.

Jan Wong

#12. Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

John Lennon

#13. I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

Emily Andrews

#14. Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.

Solange Nicole

#15. I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.

Neil Young

#16. I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

Kathryn Lasky

#17. I am not "cured"
I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

J. Kenner

#18. She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

Nevil Shute

#19. Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.

Rachel Joyce

#20. I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.

Jasinda Wilder

#21. Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

Somaly Mam

#22. Have a drink, and try to relax. All right, have another drink. There are times when getting drunk's not a bad idea.

John Christopher

#23. Grieving is not a race, nor is it a predictable experience - it is as unique as each and every one of us. Therefore by creating your own path you will find your own way through.

Corrie Sirota

#24. When children's problem behavior persists despite rules and consequences, it often means that they do not have the skills to cope with challenging situations. We must either change those situations or teach better coping skills.

Jed Baker

#25. There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

Jane Hamilton

#26. The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.

Tara K. Harper

#27. The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

Joyce Carol Oates

#29. Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.

David L. Conroy

#30. When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you've come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?

Teresa Hirst

#31. Absence of problems
does not lead to happiness.
Dealing with them does.

J. Benson

#32. Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.

Patti Feuereisen

#33. 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

Jeff Cooper

#34. Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not to objective weakness but to inner psychological patterns and conflicts which prevent the individual from using his powers.

Rollo May

#35. You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Paul Theroux

#36. The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.

Thomm Quackenbush

#37. Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.

Bell Hooks

#38. There are many things in life that can help you to cope with emotions that have a habit of bringing you down. Just always remember; help comes in all forms, and not necessarily only from people.

Martin R. Lemieux

#39. I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

Lorna Luft

#40. If you think of the moon as already used, it's not as difficult to take in,
because then it's just like you,
Traveled the world like you,
Seen the globe like you,
But, it's still bright.

Adrianna Stepiano

#41. Don't judge. I'm not getting drunk. I'm coping.

A.S. King

#42. Isolation is not a healthy 'coping' method, it's like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!

Joshua Stannard

#43. Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Virginia Satir

#44. What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

Carrie Jones

#45. Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

Mira Bartok

#46. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.

Nick Saint Clair

#47. Dove had next to no coping mechanisms when it came to social interactions gone awry. When all else failed - the running, the hiding, the dying - all that was left was the giggling.
The moment she thought about trying not to laugh, it became one hundred times worse.

Debra Anastasia

#48. Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

Tullian Tchividjian

#49. Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

Paul Russo

#50. How often do we truly feel accepted?
Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something?
How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?
How do we gratefully accept rejection?
With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection.

Angelica Hopes

#51. Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#52. Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Tessanne Chin

#53. To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

David L. Conroy

#54. Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.

Renee Fredrickson

#55. When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but you can find the calmest spot within them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#56. Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

Sally Brampton

#57. With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives.

David W. Earle