Quotes About Self-preservation

Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

I thought I was imagining things. I thought my fears were getting the better of me." "That instinct? It's called self-preservation. You're supposed to listen to it.

He had firsthand knowledge of getting punched in the face, and it was an experience he didn't want to repeat.

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Es más fácil no hacerse mucho daño haciéndose un poquito de daño.

La empatía por la desgracia ajena tiene un límite. Pasado el cual comienzas a sentir que su infortunio es un acto de maldad, cuya víctima eres tú.

La empatía por la desgracia ajena tiene un límite. Pasado el cual comienzas a sentir que su infortunio es una acto de maldad, cuya víctima eres tú.

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

Retten will man eigentlich immer nur sich selbst. Was variiert, ist das Wovor.

This is how it happens, this is how you stop yourself feeling so much. You go cold, colder still with each disappointment, each betrayal until you find you've frozen over at the core of you and you stop feeling anything anymore.

Hay momentos en la vida es los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando

Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

And so kissing her became a matter of self-preservation. It was simple. If he did not kiss her now, if he did not consume her, he would die. It sounded melodramatic, but at the moment he would have sworn it to be true. The hand of desire twisting around his gut would burst into flame and take him along with it.

Certain individuals you don't attack. You run from.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your poverty, too. The worst enemies of the poor are the poor themselves. And never, never appear that you are virtuous and without sin. It it is the virtuous who have many enemies because for they shame the many without virtue.

My brother has absolutely no sense of self-preservation or survival instinct," Eli said. "He has no idea we're out here. We could be silver-eating, flesh-regenerating, vampire zombies, and when we busted through the door to eat his brilliant brain, he'd look up and say, 'Huh?