Emotional Protection Quotes

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

Saying good-bye on 'Nurse Jackie' was a really big deal, so I'm sure I was keeping myself guarded from ever having to feel anything like that again on another job, especially a death scene.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

I try to avoid bad experiences.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

People you don't love can't hurt you.

no expectations, no disappointments!

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

I love my mother the most in the world. She has seen a lot of poverty and loneliness and is very simple. Whenever I am in trouble, I go far away from her, as she is not at all strong. If I see her breaking, I break.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

I felt like if I wasn't sharing myself physically, I would actually get a chance to see the downfalls of my partner. I would be able to minimize my intake of being disappointed.

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

I take pride in the fact that I can walk away from things. My willingness to walk away has protected me, I realize that now. Being able to walk away from sessions, from poetry, from dreams of being a poetry professor.

I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.