Quotes About Self-preservation

He feels ashamed, wretched, coming to the realization that when push comes to shove, when the terrible reality is at hand, he really would have them do it to someone else rather than himself

If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.

I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

Sometimes people are just sh*tty. Sometimes they're sh*tty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be sh*tty to others before others can be sh*tty to them.

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe--I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the edge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

I read the prescription. It ran: "1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand." I followed the directions, with the happy result... that my life was preserved, and is still going on.

Instynkt ?ycia najtrudniej zabi?. Widzia?em ludzi, którzy im g??biej staczali si? w upodlenie, tym gwa?towniej pragn?li przetrwa? wszystko i ocali? siebie.

That public spaces are not really public for you, but a series of surprise private moments that you can't prevent or erase. And so you put your headphones on and look straight ahead and don't smile even when they tell you to and just keep walking.

This need for self-preservation is that part of human nature which needs satisfaction under all circumstances and therefore forms the primary motive of human behaviour.

?ovek gubi hrabrost. Veruje da se može navi?i na razo?aranja. To nije ta?no. Ona svaki put sve više bole tako da se ?ovek uplaši. To je kao da se svaki put više ope?e. I svaki put sporije zarasta. Ne želim da se još koji put ope?em.

Najzad, sasvim je dobro što imaju svoje važne sitnice koje ?uvaju i brane. Biti sam, zaista bez ikakve iluzije, to dolazi neposredno pred ludilo ili samoubistvo.

It is one of the meaner aspects of narcissism that we feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves.

This narcissism is what keeps men marching into point-blank fire in wars: at heart one doesn't feel that he will die, he only feels sorry for the man next to him.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

It was probably bad busting it off," Bill said. "But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you." "Yes

Looking back, he asks himself, "How could I not see?" But it is human nature to cling to our sense of reality, to resist its possible shattering even in the face of irrefutable evidence. I assure him that his "cluelessness" is not something to be ashamed of. This kind of avoidance is not an act of idiocy but an act of self-preservation.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Churchill summed up the neutrals' position in a radio broadcast of 20 January 1940: 'Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.

For me, meeting new people was generally an unfortunate necessity, not an interest. Anabelle Farren might have actually been an exception for me, if I hadn't been absolutely confident that she — or Nakht — was about fifty percent likely to obliterate me if I said the wrong thing. That sort of thing made it hard for me to be enthusiastic,

I nodded. She had a point. A point that I fully intended to ignore. My questions had never been about trying to save myself in the first place. I just wanted to know what variables I had to work with in terms of methods of triggering and avoiding elimination.

But I don't want to die in a war, because they're not my wars.