Quotes About Self-preservation

Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.

I'm a little territorial and defensive.

In a sense, they had committed emotional suicide in order to protect themselves from the painful truth of their experiences.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

However the genes get the job done, it is selfish from their point of view, even if it seems altruistic at the level of the organism.

Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes. I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

How can one hate oneself so much that one is willing to murder that self?' The ship shook his head and rain flew from his locks. 'That is your mistake. No one wants the self to die. I only wanted to make all the rest of it to stop. The only way to achieve that was to put death between the world and myself.

If ever you make it so they don't need you, they will kill you.

He was stupid, stupid, stupid, and his only hope of surviving was in not letting anyone else know how stupid he was.

How can one hate oneself so much that one is willing to murder that self?" "That is your mistake. No one wants the self to die. I only wanted to make all the rest ot if stop. The only way to achieve that was to put death between the world and myself.

That is a thing I will never understand," Amber observed in a low voice. "How can one hate oneself so much that one is willing to murder that self?" The ship shook his head and rain flew from his locks. "That is your mistake. No one wants the self to die. I only wanted to make all the rest of it stop. The only way to achieve that was to put death between the world and myself.

The love you needed was the kind best avoided.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

Your a lying bastard who only cares about his own damned hide, so just leave me the hell alone! ~ Eve

Jack Newlin had no choice but to frame himself for murder.

If you are afraid for your life, you don't think about others. You think only about the people you love, and even that may not be enough.

We pick our own predators.

No one ever talks about issues like dissociative identity disorder, fugue, or psychotic breaks in anything but the most negative light. No one ever talks about how the personality does this type of thing to protect itself, to save itself, or how powerful and effective it is." I

Wasn't there some belief about how if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will jump right out? But if you put it in cold water and turn up the heat gradually, it will allow itself to slowly cook to death?

He's almost an adult. We have to save ourselves sometimes, Maggie. You should know that.

This was what happened. Abused boys became dangerous men. Those around them with a self-preservation instinct—even the people who loved them—started to move away.

Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you--and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.