Quotes About Self-preservation

Screw me once, shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. Screw me three times...can I at least get a reach around?

The unexpected but dependable law that functions in most artistic endeavors: namely that the pursuit of excellence has an even stronger instinctual draw than the need for emotional self-preservation.

MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.

A person had to keep herself in one piece when everything around her was falling apart.

Once upon a time, a woman told this to her daughter: Save yourself. The girl didn't think to ask for what? She looked into her mother's face and answered Yes. Years later, alone in the room where she lives The daughter listens to the life she's been saved from: Evening patter. Summer laughter. Young bodies Racing into the unmitigated happiness of danger.

It's got nothing to do with god, but the power of my own mind. I have to save me, no one else can do it for me.

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

We are always prepared to defend ourselves, because we all live with the fear and paranoia that other people don't like us.

People live to save themselves. You will understand that at the moment of your own death.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

Fuck yr heroes, I'm saving myself.

For myself, I counted on coming through all in one piece. Few men get killed. Most of those who meet sudden ends get themselves killed.

Seriously? You won't help me?" "Help yourself get killed? No, I won't.

But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

even in matters of self-preservation, no policy is pursued for even ten or fifteen years at a time. We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster

He who wishes to drown himself must have an ax at hand to cut the ice.

przecie my Swoje wychwala? musiemy, bo nas zjedz?!

I read in self-defense.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.