Emotional Shield Quotes

…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

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

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean 'believe' - I mean believe believe believe.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

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.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Art is love and it covers. It sheilds.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I've loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It's both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it's not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

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.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

People try to bring negativity into my life, but it's crazy how I deflect it.

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.