When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear. You switch off your soul, and you act like an animal or a machine.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.
I don't pay attention to negative stuff.
I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.
My unhappiness protects me from life.
As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.
You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.
I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake.
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.
The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.
I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.
Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.
I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.
I did have an emo phase. It was sort of like armor for me.
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.
