Quotes About Self-preservation

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you

In the deep sands a man must hoard his water.

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

All that a man hath will he give for his life.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

Letting it matter too much. If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you're nothing. I've been nothing. I can't be nothing ever again.

I don't remember, and I don't want to remember. I've been a victim, and once you have, you need to do whatever it takes not to be one again

She strode away, steeling both her heart and her belly against the hurt. It wasn't just the body, she thought, that could shatter. And it wasn't only fists and pipes and bats that could shatter it.

if you gave the media any part of yourself, it squeezed it, twisted it, and wrung it dry.

hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation.

I've purposely set up my life to be alone so I won't get hurt.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

we are not the vedantists, pauranics or tantrics. we are the 'don't touchists'. our religion is 'don't touch me, i am holy'. -vivekananda

We said that there is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself. And, having saved himself, he will commit crimes for increasingly trivial reasons; he will commit them first out of duty, then from habit, and finally -for pleasure.

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

yourself into a sheep, and you'll meet a wolf nearby.