Quotes About Instinct

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.

That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

The snake said nothing in return. Snakes do not need to justify their behavior.

Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.

But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did for love . . . the love a natural mother feels for her children. That's the strongest love there is in the world, and it's the deadliest. There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

Of them all, he had been the most perfectly made, a man whose deeply romantic core was encased in a brutally simple box which consisted of instinct and pragmatism.

I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.

In the dark, rationality seemed stupid and logic a dream. In the dark he thought with his skin.

Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way.

Writers are born, not created.

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.

Sometimes another person's fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

You love simply because you cannot help it.

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.