Quotes About Self-preservation

Everyone has his or her Frrance, his or her Paris, just as everyone has his or her London or New York. This stubborn habit strikes me as self-protection, an old tribal instinct for never showing one's back. Not knowing, not having gotten there first (and pocketing the goods), seem to implicate us as fools or rubes.

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? Make them stay. And if you can't do that, or don't know how to? Ellie shrugged. I don't know. Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first, Coop said, so you don't have to watch them walk away.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be dragged down for the count, too.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself.

To avoid disappointment, being lied to & cheated on...she puts up a wall to protect herself.

Sometimes you have to keep your secrets to yourself, if not, it may go into the wrong person ears that will come out their mouth to destroy you...

I can only please one person per day, today is not your day and tomorrow doesn't look good either.

I'm just tired of being disappointed. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I have a fear of being labeled as 'thirsty.' So I just stick to myself.

I'm not being mean or anything fu.. it.. It is what it is I'm not dealing with him.

Being nice has been getting me fu..ed over lately, I might need to act like a bi....

I've turned into a bi... because I'm tired of being nice to people that are just going to take advantage of you.

Sometimes, being scared is okay. Because in some cases, fear is the only thing that saves you from doing something foolish.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

It's really easy to give up all of those things important for self-preservation. You need to keep your sleep, exercise and retain good eating habits.

The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had.