Quotes About Self-preservation

Could the motive be nothing more than simple self-preservation? When you lose the instinct yourself, it's hard to remember how powerful it is for everyone else. He felt himself starting to smile.

So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they'll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work. There's no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.

She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.

You won't do this anymore because I'm telling you that you won't. You belong to someone now. Me. And I take care of you, even if your greatest danger comes from yourself.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.

the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don't have one.

She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.

"Shine, Shine, save poor me!I'll give you all the pussy a Shine can see."Shine says, "Now pussy's good, but pussy don't last—Shine's going to save his own black ass."And Shine swam on.

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Touch me not.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

How do men convince themselves that others must die so they might live?

Frau Elena, does a bee know it's going to die if it stings somebody?

Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They're not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

Definitely I don't want to be a punching bag for some other fighters who's gonna make some name, records off of me.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.