Quotes About Self-preservation

Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.

The life you save may very well be your own.

Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent.

The law of the jungle which I learned at a young age, and have been trying to escape ever since, is that we what we must to survive.

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

I couldn't be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.

Nowhere is it written that you have to go down with the ship if you are only dating the captain.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

You have to stay away." "I'd rather not.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

Yet she could feel a hard, tight knot of anger and hate forming within her as she walked along. She decided to walk home, hoping that the anger would evaporate on the way. She moved in long, swift strides. There was a hard sound to her heels clicking against the sidewalk and she tried to make it louder. Hard, hard, hard. That was the only way to be--so hard that nothing, the street, the house, the people--nothing would ever be able to touch her.

I suspected that if I kept up this curtailing, this cauterizing, all the distrust and systematic removal of myself from society, by age 20 it was more than likely I'd be at the stage of no longer opening my mouth to anyone, anywhere at all.

Being alone is a choice. It's how we protect ourselves, and it's how we give up when it feels too hard to keep fighting to belong. But

It was a condition of sanity both to accept 'GDR-logic' and to ignore it. 'If you took things as seriously as people in the west think we must have, we would have all killed ourselves!

He'd forgotten the most important condition that made it possible for him to go on living: that he should never again grow fond of anyone

You'll have the use of my body, Breck, until my mother is dead, but that's all you'll have of me. Not one word of tenderness, not one ounce of compassion or concern. If you're tired, if you're hurt, if you're sick, plan to go elsewhere for succor, because you won't find it with me! Those are my terms, Breck, and they're the only terms you'll get from me.

Oh, all right, I say, I'll save myself.

Being nice to that woman is like feeding a baby shark so it can grow big enough to eat you.

Il avait appris la condition essentielle pour ne pas reproduire la misère des parents : ne pas s'oublier dans une femme.

I can do something for 30 days or 50 days. I can program myself, but I can't give my year for a shooting. No, I will die. I can't handle it.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.