Quotes About Self-preservation

After he'd gone, she'd suffered a momentary, nearly immobilizing flash of panic--what if the Hunters somehow managed to find her while he was gone?--but it dissipated swiftly, leaving her astonished to realize that she truly trust him to keep her safe, at least from everything besides himself.

Don't lose yourself in anger, Mac. 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.

I want to keep her from ever changing into something so terrible as I've become.

If you can't fuck it, eat it, or use it for a weapon, kill it.

Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Limitations, boundaries, comfort zones, knowing when to stop, the point beyond which we do not go without hurting or getting hurt. All are created equal in order to keep us from destroying others and ourselves in the endless pursuit of happiness. Without a few basic guidelines for living happily ever after, the capacity to get lost, seriously hurt, or killed greatly magnifies.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

You're beginning to make a habit of trying to drown yourself, Grace. I hope from now on you will try to restrain yourself.

You can't turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you've created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can't see it anymore.

Avoid being in the presence of someone who might do you harm.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought." —William Wordsworth

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought." —William Wordsworth All

Never level with a fool, since, you'll wind up be leveled fool.

A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.

In a system of intimidation and control, people do not show how much they know, how deeply they feel, until their practical sense informs them they can do so without being destroyed.

Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out to kill him.

The realities were already fixed; the illness was understood to be terminal, and the energies of The Movement were long since aggressively dissipated by the rush to self-preservation.

Never in my life have I had the thought that I was going out to fight in order to inflict defeat on somebody. Rather, I've always gone out to protect what was rightfully mine.

Did you think I was sitting on my hands?" "I thought you might be injured." He looked at me. "We've met, you and I?" I deliberately took a big step back. "What?" he growled. "I'm making room for your ego.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

No matter whether you're hurting or it's just a precaution, you gotta eat right, make sure that you're protecting your body because 82 games and all those road trips - it's going to be a lot.