Quotes About Self-preservation

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

As I lay there in my bed, with only the armor of my eyelids shut tight, I learned to completely leave my body. I learned to develop my escape fantasies into plans.

There was no one to whom he could explain that in order to survive he needed to be at altitude, a Himalayan altitude, so he might breathe.

She always believed in the old adage, "Leave them while you're looking good."

I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

I have learnt to give my health priority and not to dismiss any health issue.

I like to keep some privacy, be a normal person.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.

I only direct in self-defense.

I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I'm not discussing it. I think that annoys the hell out of an awful lot of people.

If somebody has done something to disrespect you as a man, I feel like I have to protect myself.

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

I don't want to be the guy who, 'Oh, he's falling apart. He's a little punchy. Maybe it's time to stop.'

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.

I invented 'Christine' as a survival technique to deal with many things. I felt it would save me.

Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.

That's what our minds do. They protect us. They bury those memories that would cripple us, so that we can live with ourselves.

This philosophy means that when you've entered a den of assholes, you do everything possible to get out as fast as you can—or, better yet, to figure out how to avoid that lair in the first place. I call this the "da Vinci rule." As Leonardo da Vinci put it, "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

porcupine power.

Her abstinence from her recollections had been a matter of survival.