Quotes About Instinct

Some creatures do not care how polite a person might be, they will hurt you for no reason, and then all you can do is heal yourself with whatever ingredients are necessary.

We had been together as animals were, desperate and driven by a fierce need

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

Fucking bastards are simple by nature.

I'm thinking of the moment something dies and how we instinctively know it. And of how we try not to know what we know because we do not yet understand how we are to negotiate change.

Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it.

Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.

The human brain works partly on instinct and partly on deduction.

Eat Meat and your a beast

Hairy Mammal whaddya want

It is no wiser to taunt a man with words than to poke a wildcat with a stick.

I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because millions of years of evolution have left me programmed to run. And, finally, I run because there's no better way to see the sun rise and set.

Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.

You can't become attached to things, not out here in the wild.

Everything frightens me, and it's well that it does. Fear is a good friend to the hunted, it's kept me alive this long. The dead are fearless, and I don't care to join them.

Time was he'd reckoned himself a quick thinker but the only thing moving fast right then was his cock.

Something dug into the Bloody-Nine's back, but there was no pain. It was a sign. A message in a secret tongue, that only he could understand. It told him where the next dead man was standing. He reeled around and the sword followed him in a furious, beautiful, irresistible arc. It crunched into someone's guts, folded him in half, snatched him off his feet and flung him through the air. He

Could the motive be nothing more than simple self-preservation? When you lose the instinct yourself, it's hard to remember how powerful it is for everyone else. He felt himself starting to smile.

When we are in survival mode, we automatically become materialists, defining reality with our senses: by what we can see, hear, smell, feel, and taste. We also narrow our focus and put all our attention on matter—on our bodies existing in a particular space and time.

What instinct makes one person hold on through intolerable stress, where so many others would panic, freeze, or give up?

Jude wondered if the chip was smart enough to tell the difference between a dog and a naked psychotic scrambling around on all fours with a knife in his teeth.

Wayne was certain dogs were as superstitious as humans. More, maybe.

an instinct for running his mouth when anyone else would know to shut up.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.