Quotes About Instinct

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

It's one thing to speak of humans' essential nature theoretically, another to consider it when a fist is smashing into your mouth.

Hearts been jumping just like a rabbit. Blood keeps pumping but that's just habit.

I'm not convinced that we are all as inherently violent as you say, but it takes very little to bring the beast to the surface, at least under the cover of darkness. I

It was building up in his chest, that long guttural howl reserved for real emergencies — like when you ran into a saber-toothed tiger without your club, or your fire went out during the Ice Age.

She listened to her heart above all the other voices.

A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That's mankind in its natural state.

lap the blood flowing from my wound, each lick

Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

healers are born, not made.

I got my father's blood." The kind that quickens during a hunt, not an epidemic.

But he [Buttercup] must understand. He must know that the unthinkable has happened and to survive will require previously unthinkable acts. Because hours later, when I come to in my bed, hes there in the moonlight. Crouched beside me, yellow eyes alert, guarding me from the night.

I'm not convinced that we are all as inherently violent as you say, but it takes very little to bring the beast to the surface, at least under the cover of darkness.

One time, when I was in a hide in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell three metres to the ground, landing on my back. It was as if the impact had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay there struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything. That

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

when yuo can't believe your eyes, listen to your heart!

Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you're going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you're more likely to want to buy it.

You cannot train saving with your feet, but sometimes it is instinct. Sometimes it is quicker to go with the feet; going with the hands is sometimes more difficult. Even when I was young, I would go with my feet, it's something good for me.

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.