Quotes About Self-preservation

I don't want to lose myself for someone else.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

I think the main thing, you only get one career and you need to make the most money that you can, and any player will tell you that, you need to take care of yourself and look after yourself and your family and those around you.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

I like keeping myself hydrated and taking care of my body, skin, hair... I feel it's good to maintain yourself.

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.

It's no wonder I hid from the world. It's no wonder parties made me tired or I got exhausted after I spoke. It's no wonder criticism made me angry or I overreacted to failure. I think the part of me I sent out to interact with the world was, in some ways, underdeveloped, still trying to be bigger and smarter as a measure of survival.

Because you are not mad, or wild, or grieving! You are not roaring out to choke her with your own bare hands! Which means your soul is not too mixed up with hers. And that is good. Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.

And you love her, yes. But not too much." "Why do you say that?" "Because you are not mad, or wild, or grieving! You are not roaring out to choke her with your own bare hands! Which means your soul is not too mixed up with hers. And that is good. Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you

Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you

It had been a conscious decision to pull free. It had taken everything I had to do it, like an animal gnawing a limb off to escape a trap.

He doesn't care that Bunny is dead. I could forgive him if that was why he felt this way, but it isn't. He wouldn't care if we killed half a dozen people. All that matters to him is keeping his own name out of it.

I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt.

The cardinal rule of abduction is; if someone wants to take you someplace to do terrible things to you, resist.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find anything else to eat. Amazingly, they can consume up to 95% of their own bodyweight and still survive.

Animals are luckier; they can bury their heads in sand, hide under their coats, pretend to have no head at all.

The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.

I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

For that reason, trusting men had never come naturally to Kat, which was why she was still a virgin at thirty-five.

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.

If they make the choice to walk over me rather than walk with me, I'll have to love them from afar.