Quotes About Instinct

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.

The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. He loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.

Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

We love instinctively, but we love well because we've learned how.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~

Sigh to the stars, as wolves howl to the moon...

I live, But live to die; and, living, see no thing To make death hateful, save an innate clinging, A loathsome, and yet all invincible Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I Despise myself, yet cannot overcome–– And so I live. Would I had never lived!

Rookies are like baby turtles," he said. "As soon as they hatch out they make a run for the water. Them that make it without getting eaten by birds grow up to be big turtles. Them that don't—don't. An officer's first responsibility is to stay alive.

just as instinct may fail an animal under some shift of environmental conditions, so man's cultural beliefs may prove inadequate to meet a new situation, or, on an individual level, the confused mind may substitute, by some terrible alchemy, cruelty for love. The

I never did believe the rumors," Lacey said. "It's a way of filling a void. The human mind doesn't like unanswered questions. The instinct is to fill the unknown gaps with something, anything, even if it's bizarre. That's why closure is so important. Knowing, even when the truth hurts, you know?

was hardwired into him. And

Love and pride and a painful protective instinct crunch through her chest. Matthew and Phoebe are Lily's raison d'être. She knows why she wanted kids so badly. Having children is a hopeful, redemptive act. It's not only a literal reinvention of oneself, it's a way to reshape the idea of one's self.

Ali skrivanje osje?aja dotad mu je ve? postalo refleksna reakcija.

She slowly began to hum her personal favorite,not even realizing when instinctively she began to sing the lyrics:hush,little baby,don't say a word.If that mockingbird don't sing,papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring.If that diamond ring don't Do me a favor.Pretend you're that mockingbird and shut up one angry,bloodshot eye glared at her. I was just trying to help Help what? bring down the walls of the hut with your screeching?

Familiarity, not survival, is the strongest drive in human beings.

Instinct told him that all he could do for the moment was stay cool and play the waiting game. It wouldn't be easy but he'd manage it if it killed him.

Why can't men think with two body parts at the same time? Is it in your blood? Is it just in the genes? What?

So what do you think I should do for myself then? Whatever feels right. She stared at him for the longest beat, and then she surprised him. She stepped close, so close they were toe-to-toe and everything in between, and his only thought was Oh, Christ, this feels right.

Unable to help herself, she cupped