Quotes About Self-preservation

When there's smoke there's fire...And I'm not gonna stick around just to be burned.

You have to learn when to give up, when to walk away, even if it hurts, especially if it hurts...

Don't feel special I only keep your number in my phone so I know not to answer when you call.

It's better to have your heart broken once by walking away then to stay and have it broken over and over again.

There comes a time where you must become cold and separate the ones who are tearing you down.

Sometimes it's better to push someone away..not because you stopped loving that someone, but because you have to shield yourself from pain..

I want to be sorry. I want to tell you that I messed up and that I never want to leave your side, but I can't. You've made me strong enough to let things go. Wise enough to protect myself from heartache. I'm sorry, but you've made me smart enough to leave you.

Sometimes you need to put the sadness aside & the past behind. You need to forget everything you felt inside; Your feelings, thoughts, & all that was there because you can't get hurt if you just don't care.

To protect your heart from breaking just don't disclose that you have one.

If a girl has a wall up it's because it was built. Brick by brick, lie after lie, heartbreak after heartbreak.

You're either the liar or the one being lied to, protect yourself from being either one.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

People who are in quick sand only want to bring you down with them. After all, doesn't misery love company?

A wise woman likes but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe and leaves before she is left.

Some people choose to stay alone, simply because they are tired of giving everything and ending up with nothing.

Sometimes its better to be alone, no one can hurt you that way.

I forgive you, " I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.

Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Whatever I can do for the longevity of my life, I'm going to do.