Olivier Giroud Quotes

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

I did have an emo phase. It was sort of like armor for me.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

My go-to protective thing is isolation. It's turn off the phone, don't speak to anyone, lie in bed all day, and then maybe go out at night and do the same thing over again.

If someone has gone through a lot of emotional pain, including the loss of loved ones, that person may try to build a shell around his or her feelings to protect him- or herself from the pain.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

I am a private guy, and at the end of the day, I only really do care about my family. That's the most important thing: my way of life, my family. Whoever is in front of that is going to get hurt.