Top 100 Save Myself Quotes
#2. I've flown over seventy goddam combat missions. Don't talk to me about fighting to save my country. I've been fighting all along to save my country. Now I'm going to fight a little to save myself. The country's not in danger any more, but I am.
Joseph Heller
#3. Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.
Mario Giacomelli
#4. Before I save someone else, I have to save myself.
Ed Sheeran
#5. I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.
Jodi Picoult
#6. How else can I save myself from hormones on their last hoorah?
H.A. Kotys
#7. I'm not good at relationships
I always manage to find the flaws
sometimes in others
but mostly my own.
I foretell the ending
then go and create the cause
save myself
and end up alone
David Levithan
#8. My childhood was so inconsistent that I never expected normalcy, and it's enough for me to be able to have time and space to be good to myself and the people around me. Children are nice, but I decided to save myself instead.
Meghan Daum
#9. I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#10. Save myself from death is that it?! Is that why I've come here?! I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death!
American McGee
#11. When I finally accept it, the truth stings. But there's no time to dwell on it, and there are only two choices: I can remind myself about someone who is not a part of my life, or I can leave him out of my notes to save myself from going through this all over again tomorrow.
Cat Patrick
#12. I've just gotta save myself and then I'm Yours.
Frank Warren
#13. I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
William Faulkner
#14. No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye.
James Hetfield
#15. You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.
She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'
You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'
That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
Agatha Christie
#16. I don't need you to save me. I just need a little help to save myself.
Jamie McGuire
#17. It's much too late to save myself from falling.
Elton John
#18. I don't want you to save me I want you to stand by my side as I save myself
Sushil Singh
#19. He didn't save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.
Amy Engel
#20. Though I worship nothing (save myself)
You were my savior - so be it
And it was
Perhaps not never more or ever after
But after all - once you were mine
Nikki Giovanni
#21. I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'.
Dannii Minogue
#22. You can't sit next to me doing nothing while I'm trying desperately to save myself by doing something.
David B.
#23. I want to save the world but I haven't worked out a way to save myself yet.
Rae Earl
#24. The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving ... Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious.
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
Maurice Sendak
#26. Love didn't save me; it changed me. Changed me into someone who could save myself.
Sarah Ockler
#27. To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
Rani Mukerji
#30. I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.
Samuel Shem
#31. I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
Alice Sebold
#32. I tapped my cup to his, grateful to have found Shaun, because for a minute there, I'd thought I was going to have to save myself. Instead, I'd wandered into the protective care of a sexy older man.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#33. Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I'm not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.
Claudia Gray
#34. Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#35. My beacon is gone and I'm drowning now. The storm is all around me and I can't even save myself. I don't even know if I want to.
She's gone.
David Levithan
#36. In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#37. Now every time he turned to her, he bent his head, as though he would have fallen at her feet, and in his eyes there was nothing but humble submission and dread. 'I would not offend you' his eyes seemed every time to be saying, 'but I want to save myself, and I don't know how.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday and take back to school again signed by one of our parents. The reason I did so was that M happened to be out at the time and I thought I could save myself trouble.
Daphne Du Maurier
#39. When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together?
Samantha Schutz
#40. I crave broken men.
When I try to save other people
am I trying to save myself?
Am I covering up for my lack of strength
by putting people back together?
I am tired.
I want someone to save me -
build an intricate web
and place it beneath me in case I fall.
Samantha Schutz
#41. I'm busy saving everybody else when I can't even save myself
Rajesh
#42. If I failed in what I now designed to undertake, who, save myself, would suffer?
Charlotte Bronte
#43. Goldie closed her eyes and tried not to think about how she had nearly died, waiting for someone to come along and save her. She shivered. 'I'll never do that again,' she thought. 'Next time I'll save myself.
Lian Tanner
#44. I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.
Manute Bol
#45. I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
Richard Wright
#46. I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
Benjamin Franklin
#47. To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...
Alexandre Dumas
#49. It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#50. I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will. Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis
#51. To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
Amy Tan
#52. Logan's gaze swung back to Galen. His eyes crinkled in the corners and a genuine smile appeared. "Did you just make a jest? Galen Shaw, you surprise me." "I have to do something to save myself from Hayden.
Donna Grant
#53. Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.
Elizabeth Taylor
#54. We tried not to look at each other for a minute, smiling each time we did. Except for the tiny scars on her wrists, she seemed perfect to me, and so I loved the scars, because they meant that I could save her from something, and save myself
Chris Fuhrman
#55. I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.
Kevin Hart
#56. Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself.
Chuck Palahniuk
#57. I never even tried. Because I let the world teach me to hate myself. I was a coward who needed someone else to tell me I was worth something before I took any steps to save myself.
Tahereh Mafi
#58. He hugged her. "Be strong for me, Tatiana," Alexander said hoarsely. "Save yourself for me." "That's what I do, Shura," Tatiana said. "I save myself for you." Alexander bent to her, but she couldn't even look up. He kissed the top of her hat. They held on for a few more seconds.
Paullina Simons
#59. Travis was going to be a part of that, and if he wouldn't let me save him, I had to save myself.
Jamie McGuire
#60. I've always had just enough sense to spare others, but never enough to save myself from misfortune.
Herta Muller
#61. I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
Gao Xingjian
#62. I realize nobody's coming to save me. I must save myself. I must be my own super hero. Although I am open to a sidekick.
Karen Salmansohn
#63. The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it
Erich Fromm
#64. Like the clanging of the bell, the truth crashes in upon me. At last I understand. He took away my voice to save me. And now, to save myself, I take it back.
Julie Berry
#65. I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
Euripides
#66. In no way did God want me to settle for one of the typical "jerks" who were a dime a dozen. He wanted me to save myself for a man who had His very nature and character within him. And He wanted me to trust Him enough to bring that special man to me in His perfect time.
Leslie Ludy
#67. If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
Cheryl Rainfield
#69. I am hit with the enormity of the impact that this family is having in my life. They, and mostly Chris, are saving me. Or teaching me to save myself.
Jessica Park
#70. I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
Barbara Christian
#71. This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission will not only be uneconomical, but ridiculous. This is the task I have set myself in what little life I have left.
Viktor Schauberger
#73. Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.
John Henry Newman
#74. That's what you don't get, Hadlee. You're saving me too. Every second I spend with you, you save me a little more. When I'm around you, I want to better myself. I want to be a better man.
Lauren Hammond
#75. I'd sometimes pictured myself bravely sacrificing my life to save another, but my preference had always been that it be someone I actually liked.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#76. I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'
Don McCullin
#77. There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.
David Levithan
#78. Jesus didn't die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself.
Ricky Maye
#79. I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.
Darryl Worley
#80. OCD focuses on the negative. I didn't think to myself, My praying will save my grandma. Instead, I thought, If I don't pray, my grandma will die for sure.
J.J. Keeler
#81. I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
John Howard
#82. We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
Patrick Ness
#83. I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.
Jim DeMint
#84. I'd go to hell and back and cut off the devil's head myself to save you.
Melika Dannese Lux
#85. O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.
Francois Fenelon
#86. I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.
Vladimir Nabokov
#87. What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I did that, the Horn couldn't save me. The Creator couldn't save me. I would damn myself.
Robert Jordan
#88. I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#89. I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?
Tucker Max
#90. I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can't. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#91. I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.
Art Alexakis
#92. I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I've been saved from myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#93. Jesus came to save me from myself. He came to save me from self-effort. He didn't just die for my sin to give me forgiveness; he rose again to give me life.
Emily P. Freeman
#94. Lord, I have let myself be deceived; in a thousand ways I have shunned your love, yet here I am once more, to renew my covenant with you. I need you. Save me once again, Lord, take me once more into your redeeming embrace.
Pope Francis
#95. I just ... feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.
James Dashner
#96. Heartburn is how I recognize myself. It's how I know I feel like me. - Donny
Sharon Weil
#97. God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#98. I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
Michael Douglas
#99. I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.
Rex Stout
#100. Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
Charles Bukowski
