Quotes About Self-preservation

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me.

Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.

Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)

I'm having to protect myself. How do you protect your heart and cover everything? When you don't want to look people in the eye and you're constantly dodging, I fall into it.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

It would be nice if you'd stop almost killing me because you don't want to screw other peo­ple.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.

When death visits, it's every man for himself.

There was inside her a core of fury and independence and self-preservation, the genetic heritage of survival.

Afraid, now that I knew what I wanted. What I did not want. I did not want him to hurt me.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to know about you, Katniss." "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to time in the past!" I say.

I don't know how to say it exactly. Only...I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?' he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself. 'I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not.

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

I just keep wishing, I could think of a way, to show to them that they don't own me. That if I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me. Does that make sense? Yeah. I just can't afford to think that way.

the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

Vull morir essent jo mateix. […] No vull que em canviïn.

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

It's The Program or me. And I decide it's going to be me.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.