Quotes About Self-preservation

I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I ever want to use it.

Dear girls, I can let anyone get hurt because in my world, my safety and well-being come first.

When I'm feeling uncomfortable, I attack. It makes people step off and gives me time to find my way.

Stripping away the humanity because that is the only way I can save myself and still watch this unrelenting horror.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

and discover that family, like arsenic, works best in small doses . . . unless you prefer to die.

I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me

Lying had become her clothing—without it she'd freeze.

She'd spent the decades barricading herself from life, setting the conditions for love so high no one else could ever meet them.

conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority.

It's like a little fortress, where the most private part of you lives - maybe it's your soul, maybe just that bit that makes you yourself and not anyone else.

I felt deeply betrayed that the man I depended on as friend, protector, and lover intended to do such a thing to me. And my sense of self-preservation was quietly terrified at the thought of submitting myself to the mercies of someone who handled a fifteen-pound claymore as though it were a flywhisk.

It is easier to kill someone to save your own life than it is to hurt someone to save theirs.

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. - Author Unknown

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. – Author Unknown

You try to be selfish because you're afraid of letting anyone too near. To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect. - Kadar den Arnaud

To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect.

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point however, is to ignore self-preservation.

Let every fox take care of his own tail.

?uvajte se ugroženih ljudi i ljudi koji misle da su ugroženi. Oni ose?aju potrebu da se štite i brane, i zbog toga ?esto i neo?ekivano i podmuklo napadaju

Sadness is also a kind of defence.