“Dale: Personally, I've found denial to be a very effective coping mechanism. Janet: Kind of how I feel about Chardonnay.”— Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Janet Stein, Ever Carradine, imdb.com
“Consider for a moment that what you call your "personality" is actually just a composite of habits & behavioral patterns you developed to cope with trauma. Now ask yourself, who am I outside of my pain? Who would I be if I stopped living life as a product of my story?”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Daydreaming about alternative lives to escape my own has become a coping mechanism which I have internalised so much that it happens unconsciously throughout the day. I’ll be always daydreaming in the back of my head no matter what I do.”— 50-km, 50-km.tumblr.com
“Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.”— Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org
“I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armour because I’m too sensitive.”— Marlon Brando, amazon.com
“Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”— Virginia Satir, goodreads.com
“Give me lust, baby. Give me malice. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com