Quotes About Self-preservation

Cathy had the one quality required of a great and successful criminal: she trusted no one, confided in no one. Her self was an island.

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

You can't always be nice. That's how people take advantage of you. Sometimes you have to set boundaries.

Sometimes the only way forward is to walk away, you cannot win every battle, you must remove yourself to live another day.

No, I'm not a bi.... I just don't care anymore. I'm sick of taking down my walls for people that want to hurt me. I'm sick of caring about people who don't even know I exist. I've been hurt so many times that I don't want it to happen anymore. So maybe I'm a bit bitter, but I'm not a bi.... Just hurt.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

It was in an atomiser, and she used to squirt it around her bedroom after she had finished a cigarette. On these occasions, my mother always said, "Do you think we are teaching the child deception?" And Aunt Edna always replied , "No, just self-preservation.

Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to.

I've known for a long time that hypocrisy is the secret of sanity. You mustn't let them know you know.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Take care of yourself, you only get one life, and you want to live as long as possible.

The less you expect from others the more you keep yourself safe from being disappointed and hurt.