Quotes About Instinct

Love would be two animals: a hummingbird and a snake. Both are perfectly untrainable.

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

I was lying on the ground. I could feel my blood mixing with the dirt. And Reese said, 'You can stay up here and fuck the grizzly bears, puss.' And the goddamned thing is, when I finally was able to stand up, I was more scared of imaginary grizzly bears than I was of Reese. Although I'm sure a grizzly bear has better table manners. I just motivated myself the hell away, as fast as I could crawl. I'm not even sure there are grizzly bears around here, anyway.

Why did people run around in random directions when shooting started instead of literally hitting the deck to stay out of the line of fire? How stupid could you get?

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.

A trembling in the bones carries often a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

The heart and the gut are siblings.

Had Stephen been better acquainted with men and women, she would have been more satisfied with herself for being the first at the tryst. The conventional idea, in the minds of most women and of all men, is that a woman should never be the first. But real women, those in whom the heart beats strong, and whose blood can leap, know better. These are the commanders of men. In them sex calls to sex, all unconsciously at first; and men answer to their call, as they to men's.

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

Criminal Minds, Bad Moon on the Rise: "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright."

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Reason has an elder sister, never forget that. She's called Intuition.

Only primitive man knew freedom, but a freedom imprisoned by the fear of the other and of nature.

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

conditions, an effort to reconcile the spirit which loves freedom and goodness and beauty with its harsh, bare and disappointing conditions. It is, in its earliest form, a spontaneous and instinctive endeavor to shape the facts of the world to meet the needs

Those to whom man teaches little, nature like a wise and prudent mother teaches much.

Darf man einen Wolf zwingen, Gras zu fressen, wenn er keinen Appetit darauf hat?

We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That's crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn, you cry to the point where you think you'll never stop - and then you reach a stage where the survival instinct takes over. You stop. You simply won't or can't let yourself "go there" anymore because the pain was too great. You block. You deny. But you don't really heal.

Lewis Petrinovich, The Cannibal Within (New York: Aldine de Gruyter

The love of cruelty is a component of human psychology as old as the species itself.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.