Quotes About Self-preservation

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

It was, therefore, in an attempt to save one's own skin that one literally tried to submerge into the crowd.

Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful.

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To myself I whispered that I still had my gun, and was still a free man -- free to trace the fugitive, free to destroy my brother.

There were precious few people you could trust, so if you wanted to survive, you'd better always look out for Number One.

Thinking that you can't protect the ones you love, you have to hope they're smart enough to save themselves, And hope, well. Who had any of that to spare?

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

I'm afraid that you're leaving me, so i'm leaving you first.

Emotion is an instinctive response aimed at self-preservation.

Staying unnoticed was how you survived.

Non si può amare un altro più di se stessi. Chi non si salva da sé, non lo salva nessuno

When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish. We want to build our own little nests, our own cocoons, so that we can live by ourselves in a secure way.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?

By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.

If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself.

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse (...); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures.

When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.

Never give up the personal—it will return as a weapon wielded against you. He

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.