Quotes About Self-preservation

How many times do you let someone hurt you in the same way, she asked him, before you become the asshole who keeps allowing it?

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

Better not to sit on a hedgehog if you are naked.

Don't disappear on me, Dylan." I hope I don't disappear on myself.

The best defense was your own, and you should never rely on chance or other people.

They always build the strongest walls for themselves, the rich and powerful," Rocan muttered, his bitter words so soft the boy almost didn't catch them. "They always protect themselves, even if it's at the expense of others.

He'd often said that keeping things to himself was a matter of survival. Barracus had often told her that if she was doing something important she shouldn't tell people anything they didn't need to know. He lived his life by that rule. In fact, he often wouldn't tell Magda about things he thought she didn't need to know. Like why he killed himself.

Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

They were probably descended from people who learned that if you look too hard at anyone on horseback you receive a sharp stinging sensation such as might be obtained by a stick around the ear. Not looking up at people on horseback had become hereditary. People who stared at people on horseback in what was considered to be a funny way never survived long enough to breed.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Wilderness ensures possibilities. Saving wilderness is about saving ourselves, as well as protecting the evolutionary integrity of all other life forms on the planet.

I never had to worry about anyone else before, about what I could lose. I didn't know it would scare me so much. Now I've got this big exposed Achilles heel, and all I can think about is how to protect it.

I don't really read stuff on myself. I like to just kind of stay away... I don't get too involved in that.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield.

If you have to call the police on your man, then you'd better choices. If not, what have you taught him? Better him in jail this time rather than you in the morgue the next time.

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?

Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself.

Nothing touches her. To be touched is weakness.