Top 100 Coping Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Coping Quotes from famous people such as Sheila Hancock, Albert Bandura, Tim Henman, Al Pacino, Stacey Solomon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think when you're coping with grimness perhaps you do

I think when you’re coping with grimness perhaps you do get sillier and more escapist in what you want to see at the theatre.
Sheila Hancock
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
Albert Bandura
For a few years after I stopped playing people would ask me how I was coping with retirement and there would often be a slightly worried tone to their voice. But I always answered the question the same way: that if I knew retirement was going to be this good I would have quit a long time ago.
Tim Henman
I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
Al Pacino
I really struggle with my anxiety, I have done since I was a child. When I look back into it, I don’t know what happened to make me the way I am, but it’s definitely affected my anxiety levels and I’ve spent most of my life looking for coping mechanisms.
Stacey Solomon
The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.
John Bradshaw
I think being funny was a coping mechanism because I was always the new kid in school.
Tom Segura
Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn’t the best approach to good health, it’s a part of people’s realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.
Jameela Jamil
My humour is a mix of my parents’. I get the chatty, anecdotal stuff from my dad and the filth from my mam, Valerie. She has a very dark sense of humour, I think from having grown up with disabilities. It’s a coping mechanism. She had polio when she was eight and has been in a wheelchair for about 20 years.
Sarah Millican
Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.
Rachel Simmons
Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.
James Roday
I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.
Carnie Wilson
So when you’re dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as ‘we are all toast anyway,’ then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
Bob Inglis
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.
Robin Ince
I’ve used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It’s gotten me through a lot of challenging times.
Adam Rippon
Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
Rachel Cusk
My way of coping with the day to day news cycle, which can be a lot, following every undulation of the news, I think it’s really psychologically harmful, so I check in, but I check in on a slower cycle. That’s my way of controlling my emotional response to fairly dark times.
Morgan Spector
I think it’s very important to support the program in your area, as each part of the country has its own challenges coping with AIDS. It can be very different from state to state and city to city. Wherever you live, there is surely someone who could use your help.
Beth Broderick
People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.
Edward Zwick
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm – and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
Kate Middleton
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge – whether it’s coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this ‘post-traumatic growth.’
Jane McGonigal
I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
Lorna Luft
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Malcolm Bradbury
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
Chuck Palahniuk
Routine is part of coping.
Lorene Scafaria
It’s such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we’re not coping, because we’re supposed to be all right with all the different roles we’re born with and are piled on us later on.
Zawe Ashton
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk
I’m not coping very well with all the attention, if I’m honest.
Sienna Miller
My humour is a mix of my parents’. I get the chatty, anecdotal stuff from my dad and the filth from my mam, Valerie. She has a very dark sense of humour, I think from having grown up with disabilities. It’s a coping mechanism. She had polio when she was eight and has been in a wheelchair for about 20 years.
Sarah Millican
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don’t know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.
Ransom Riggs
One of the advantages of going to a small school is tha

One of the advantages of going to a small school is that you’re expected to be the man. They have to give you the ball, and there’s more room for error in a situation where you can play your way through mistakes (and no matter how good you are, this is a valuable coping skill at the NBA level).
C. J. McCollum
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it’s also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
Monica Raymund
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.
J. G. Ballard
As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).
Shinzo Abe
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
Herman Kahn
Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.
Jean Chatzky
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
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
Marianne Williamson
Me just putting on whatever I want to wear today, people find confidence in that. But to me, I’m just coping.
Bretman Rock
Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
Rachel Cusk
When I married into the military a few years ago, I was failing at navigating the realities of deployment alone. When I turned to the military family community, their tried and true coping skills changed my life.
Brianna Keilar
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.
Randy Rainbow
I have never known what it feels like to wake up in the morning full of the joys of spring, and wander through the day feeling capable of coping.
Sarah Lancashire
Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.
Thundercat
A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It’s a coping mechanism.
Daniel Kaluuya
I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
Al Pacino
I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It’s sad and heart-breaking, and it’s not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.
Alia Bhatt
So when you’re dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as ‘we are all toast anyway,’ then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
Bob Inglis
I think being funny was a coping mechanism because I was always the new kid in school.
Tom Segura
I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
Lorna Luft
I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.
Camille Grammer
I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.
Dimitar Berbatov
For a few years after I stopped playing people would ask me how I was coping with retirement and there would often be a slightly worried tone to their voice. But I always answered the question the same way: that if I knew retirement was going to be this good I would have quit a long time ago.
Tim Henman
I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it’s true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.
Petina Gappah
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
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It’s pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
K. A. Applegate
There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.
Limmy
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.
Jean Chatzky
Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.
James Roday
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be excee

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
Albert Bandura
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Malcolm Bradbury
I think it’s very important to support the program in your area, as each part of the country has its own challenges coping with AIDS. It can be very different from state to state and city to city. Wherever you live, there is surely someone who could use your help.
Beth Broderick
‘Existence’ is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by coping, as they always have.
David Brin
My mom’s coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.
Emma Walton Hamilton
Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.
Annette Curtis Klause
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm – and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
Kate Middleton
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.
Phil McGraw
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge – whether it’s coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this ‘post-traumatic growth.’
Jane McGonigal
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
Joanne Harris
I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It’s sad and heart-breaking, and it’s not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.
Alia Bhatt
Through my fans and my children, my wife, just good people, I’m coping.
Curtis Mayfield
What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?
Mike Barnicle
Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
Ashton Eaton
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
My way of coping with the day to day news cycle, which can be a lot, following every undulation of the news, I think it’s really psychologically harmful, so I check in, but I check in on a slower cycle. That’s my way of controlling my emotional response to fairly dark times.
Morgan Spector
I’m having a tough time coping in showbiz. I’m absolutely terrified of it. Each time you walk out, somebody wants to click a picture.
Amyra Dastur
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
Marianne Williamson
The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.
Rollo May
It’s such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we’re not coping, because we’re supposed to be all right with all the different roles we’re born with and are piled on us later on.
Zawe Ashton
I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.
Camille Grammer
We’re lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren’t working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it’s time to try something new.
Robert Sapolsky
Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.
Annette Curtis Klause
I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
Clemantine Wamariya
As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).
Shinzo Abe
I’ve always had a quirky way of looking at things. It’s my coping mechanism.
Sherri Shepherd
When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for ‘Swimming Pool’ was kind of a burden. Like, ‘OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,’ and I was having problems coping with that image.
Ludivine Sagnier
Everyone wants to beat Manchester United, but that’s something that we are used to coping with.
Ander Herrera
I’ve used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It’s gotten me through a lot of challenging times.
Adam Rippon
We’re lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren’t working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it’s time to try something new.
Robert Sapolsky
I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying t

I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
Clemantine Wamariya
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
There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.
Jordan Henderson
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it’s also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
Monica Raymund
Sometimes getting something off your chest to someone else is an important step in coping – so you know that you’re not alone, you’re not failing, and that it is perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed or sad at times. Everybody does.
David Lidington
I don’t think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.
Sean Hayes
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one’s fears.
Barbara Deming