Quotes About Self-preservation

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

I realise that I need to be selfish at times as well as smart in decision-making and just not throw away my wicket.

My body isn't made to be thrown on or get hit with ladders.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

If you walk through life and you relate to everybody who looks at you, it would send you mad. So you close those people off, and you end up in a very small, tight bubble.

All she had to protect herself against him was silence, the one skill in which she had become an expert.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

It's not safe to love everyone.

What I'm saying is, you're a turned-inward soul; it's the way you cope with the hard things in life. You hide away.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

It's not fun to keep secrets. But sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

I'd so rather be a living snack than dead meat.

Look, she sighed. You might be a lovely lad, in fairness you look like a lovely lad, but I can't take the chance. My kids wouldn't even be able to remember what I was wearing to tell the police. And all the recent photographs of me are bad, very jowly. I couldn't have them stuck to the lamp posts around the city. On your way, son. (Woman to Matt, when he tried to give her a lift.)

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

But when folks are down to the one thing that keeps them alive, that one thing can be meanness. It

often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us – we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against misfortune.

A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.