Quotes About Instinct

private and primitive and a bit on the funky and frightening

The reptile brain is the dragon within us.

Whether meaningful or meaningless, the game of life is there to be played - and the animal in his animal way seems to know it and the cage is an offense to what his inner animal voice tells him is right and true.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

Maureen appeared at my elbow, and the boys seemed reluctant to continue under her springtime eyes so wide with interest. They buckled in confusion, not willing to beat up three girls under her watchful gaze. So they listened to a budding male instinct that told them to pretend we were unworthy of their attention.

His dad had always told him that the red-faced were blusterers, not to be taken seriously. 'But if you see a bloke who's pale and shaking, son,' Bert's father had instructed, 'then run like blazes, because he might flamin' kill you.

the gut had a mind of its own

Wir sind alle Tiere

El miedo nos mantiene vivos.

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?

If the psychopath can "make" out of a situation, if there's any kind of reward on offer, they go for it, irrespective of risk or possible negative consequences.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

There is a psychological theory that says human beings operate according to three natural motivations: 1. to obtain rewards and recognition 2. to avoid pain and danger 3. to get even

I've known the taste of fear from birth. It was in my mother's milk.

They had left the mountains and entered the world, and he became a predator. She had survived by playing dead.

I always trust my gut reaction it's always right.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

Everyone absolutely knows what a strawberry tastes like, even if you are allergic to them. Everyone absolutely knows what the toilet flushing sounds like. Everyone absolutely scratches their mosquito bites. And I know that I was absolutely ready to die. This wasn't a cry for help. I didn't want to be saved. I was ready to call it quits. Done. Terminado.

But my father's is closest. (Emily) A wounded hawk doesn't bed down in a fox's den. (Draven)

Would you have really killed him? (Lorelei) For touching you, absolutely. (Jack)

Hello. (Serenity) I've killed over a hundred men. Half of them I kill for simply saying hello. (Ushakii)