Quotes About Self-preservation

I can honestly say I'm scared of being hurt again which is probably why I have a wall up now.

I think negative almost about everything jus to avoid being hurt from sh...

The most effective way to keep yourself from being hurt is to just have no friends at all.

A hurt person does everything they can to protect themselves from getting hurt again.

When the time comes and you'll look for me, I won't be there anymore. Not because of you... But because I'm not stupid enough to stay.

Learning to walk away is hard but staying to suffer is harder.

Sometimes ignoring you is the best way to protect my feelings...

Sometimes I think to myself; people would be very surprised if I stop being a bi... but it keeps me from getting hurt.

Enough been enough so I'm throwing in the towel.. I'm too playa to keep being played...

Ima muthafu..n thug sometimes it can hurt ...But I just don't like taking the risk of being played with!

I assume I'm being played with alot. I cut people off so quick cause I have a serious fear of looking like a fool.

You give some people an inch and they take a mile. But that doesn't mean you need to keep giving. Cut off the gravy train if you're overextending yourself. When you're depleted, you're no good to yourself or anyone else.

I care too much, that's how I get hurt.

Don't expose your weaknesses. People are slow at understanding you, but very quick at taking advantage of the things you say.

Mainly, she lived. She got on with the small acts of life. She continued to ensure that - in the phrase she always used inside her own head - she got away with it. No one found her out.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

Debemos defender a los ídolos que creamos, para defendernos a nosotros mismos, para no desesperarnos

I think a lot of comedy comes from hypersensitivity, from being too vulnerable to deal with life and needing to preemptively protect yourself.

that form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves...

Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it's not the same thing. Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.

I do have a sense of adventure," I said. "It's overawed by my sense of self-preservation.

People have so often been hurt and trapped and tortured by ideas and contraptions which they did not understand, that they have come to believe all things passing their understanding are vicious and evil—things to be stamped out and destroyed by the first comer. They only protect themselves, thus, against the ghastly hurts that can come to them from little things grown up.

If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin,3 were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I,'' and cuts you off forever from the "we.