Quotes About Self-preservation

But I didn't hear her, couldn't, was already gone, turning and walking out the door with the food in my hands to the parking lot before I even knew what was happening. Over the years I had perfected removing myself from situations. It was kind of like automatic pilot; I just shut down and retreated, my brain clicking off before anything that hurt could sink in.

A bit of ideology and being up to date is most apropos," Chekhov said—tongue in cheek, I suspect. In a more serious vein, he wrote that writers "should engage in politics only enough to protect themselves from politics.

You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

La doctrina del egoísmo es y seguirá siendo guardarse a sí mismo, no lo es ni la gratitud ni el deber ni el respeto.

Temevano di ferirsi, e proprio questo timore era il primo a essere ferito e il primo a ferire.

I save my screams for murder attempts

don't do things that kill you.

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.

It was human nature. You didn't give everything away; if you did, you would have nothing left. There were those who took the view that there was a liberation in the act of confession, but mostly they tended to be the ones who were listening, and not the ones confessing. The only full confessions occur on deathbeds; all others are partial, modified.

Fear was the key. The Crooked Man had learned that, faced with death, most men would do anything to stay alive. They would weep, beg, kill, or betray another to save their own skins. If he could make David afraid of his life, then he would give the Crooked Man what he desired.

VÅ¡ichni pÃ…â"¢edvádíme svÄ›tu jednu tváÃ…â"¢ a druhou skrýváme. Jinak bychom nedokázali pÃ…â"¢ežít.

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

I'm fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don't defend myself, no one else will.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I'm not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.

for their own self-protection, great figures like Socrates, Spinoza, or Galileo in every generation and culture must somehow learn to camouflage their superiority or suffer the painful consequences.

when the interests of the salesmen and promoters differ from those of the client, the client had better look out for himself. This

You too heavy a man for me to carry...I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain't got but this one back and I don't want it broke again...