106 Quotes About Self-preservation

The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us.

Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.

Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness?

There's a fine line between self-preservation and mummification.

Those who cannot dance, should not dance.

Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.” He turned and started wading into the swamp. “Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles, lest she should get wet.

The little brain still wants a rematch with her. The big brain knows I’d have to sleep with one eye open and my back against a wall.