Coping mechanisms Quote by Carina Chocano

“However, I must admit that keeping myself to myself has not always been comforting. At times, I seemed to suffer spells of depression and…

— Lawrence G. Taylor

“I started to feel that nagging sense of shame again, an acute awareness of my own inability to share in his [my grandfather's] optimism.”

— Téa Obreht

“Despair demands less of us, it’s more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity—seeing the troubles in this world—and imagination,…

— Rebecca Solnit

“When we fail to live up to our own expectations, we’ll despair. When we fail to live up to the expectations of others, we’ll…

— Byron Forrest Yawn

“In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive minds. We build up our selves out…

— Mark Epstein

“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again.”

— William Boyd

“Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mine because there appeared to me no…

— Nick Hornby

“Bursts of hope make despair harder to live with.”

— Bethany Griffin

“Refuge from despair is often found in the passion of self-pity and that spirit of obstinate resistance which it engenders.”

— George Gissing

“Despair leads to distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Many of us have pain, regrets, and disappointments buried so far deep down inside ourselves, we have no idea they’re there or how they’re…

— Rebecca Rosen

“To the extreme of this feeling I was ever a victim. The heavy responsibility, often suddenly and unexpectedly imposed—the struggle for success, when success…

— John William Polidori