Quotes About Self-preservation

I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.

I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.

I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

I spent much of my life hiding.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch itll be someone elses bones which go crack and not their own.

You've got to look after yourself, nothing comes for free and you've got to do the other bloke before he does you. That's what the pensioners don't realise. They might be owed something but there's nobody left to cough up. It's a different world now. The war spirit is dead and gone, packaged and sold off to the highest bidder.

If you're stupid enough to sleep with your superior, you'd best be smart enough to use whatever you have left.

Maybe that was the trade: Stay erased and still and quiet and be invisible and safe. Take an action, claim space, be noticed-and open yourself up to attack by everyone and everything.

A snake never shares what she knows unless it serves her own purposes.

I didn't want to reinvent myself again. Even if hanging on to myself hurt.

I do not understand why he takes payment to protect us from himself.

I may have the run away, you understand. That is the sensible thing to do when a large predator is pursuing you. No hard feelings at all.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can

There was some nerve in his feeling he did not want touched: he protected it without knowing where it was.

Sometimes people have a lot to lose by telling stories in certain ways, so they work very hard to hide the things that don't fit with their views of themselves,

You tell yourself to someone and they steal your soul. That's why I don't talk to anybody.

That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.

Før avreisen advarte obersten alle mot å forsøke å begå selvmord mens han var borte. Og ingen måtte dra til Nordkapp på egen hånd. Obersten sa at han begynte å få nok av selvtektstendensene i gruppa.