#Coping Quotes

“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.”

“Patch grief with proverbs.”

“Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.”

“Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.”

“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.”

“The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.”

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”

“In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.”

“Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.”

“Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.”

“Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty.”

“For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.”

“The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.”

“What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.”

“Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow”

“Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.”

“So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.”

“Work makes a callus against grief.”

“Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.”

“I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".”

“If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.”

“The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?”

“I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.”

“Whatever gets you through the night”

“Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.”

“Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”

“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”

“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”

“But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.”

“The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.”

“I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.”

“Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.”

“To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.”

“Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!”

“If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.”

“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”

“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.”

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”

“Laugh now, cry later.”

“I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.”

“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”

“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”

“I'm for whatever gets you through the night.”

“Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad”

“What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.”