"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."

Coping, Cruelty, Laughter, Survival, Emotion

56

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."

Exlpore more Coping quotes

"Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Coping, Nature, Insanity, Reality

"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Coping, Drink, Desire, Escape, Needs

"To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver."

Todd Stocker, American Author

Coping, Grief, Acceptance, Resilience, Reflection

"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."

Laini Taylor, American Novelist

Coping, Humor, Defiance, Resilience

"Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me-that ship has sailed."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Coping, Trauma, Humor, Courage, Exposure

"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."

Libba Bray, American Author

Coping, Emotion, Life, Struggle, Reflection

"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Coping, Escape, Alcohol, Despair

"The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Coping, Problem, Acceptance, Reality, Adaptation

"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Coping, Grief, Busyness, Distraction, Emotion

"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Coping, Music, Escape, Healing, Distraction

Explore more quotes by Robert Jordan

"Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that."

Strategy

"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."

Inequality

"Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story."

Illusion

"Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market."

Success

"Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave."

Realization

"It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid."

Perception

"Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards."

Wisdom

56

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Coping quotes

"Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life."

"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."

"To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver."

"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."

"Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me-that ship has sailed."

"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."

"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."

"The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them."

"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."

"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."

Explore more quotes by Robert Jordan

"If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third."

"The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers."

"Time to toss the dice."

"Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that."

"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."

"Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story."

"Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market."

"Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave."

"It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid."

"Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards."