Quotes About Instinct

Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.

They are all killing themselves. Because this parasitic worm grows inside them, to become like a full-grown aquatic creature, and as it grows it takes over the brain function of the grasshopper, so the grasshopper thinks, "Hey, I really like water" and so they divebomb into water and die. And it's happening all the time. Google it. Google "grasshopper suicide".

Women are more likely than men to engage immediately in emotionally stimulating conversations because instinctively women are usually more connected with their emotions.

And yet she did understand: not only the lengths to which a mother might go to protect her child; but the impulsive acts to which a heart, disturbed by years of longing, might be prone.

die in place or undertake a desperate swim to greener pastures on other islands beckoning in the distance. The moral of the story: There doesn't need to be a pig trapper or a turkey farmer in the equation to cause a mass die-off event; nature can do it all on her own. And nature doesn't care about your schedule, or your personal problems.

Creatures that are able to flee starvation will do so.

la pitié sentimentale n'est en réalité que « l'impatience du cÅ"ur de se débarrasser au plus vite de la pénible émotion qui vous étreint devant la souffrance d'autrui, qui n'est pas du tout la compassion, mais un mouvement instinctif de défense de l'âme contre la souffrance étrangère.

On the contrary. Babies are the best judges of character.

Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instinctively do I recognise that it soars high above the gravest faults and the cruellest wrongs (and how admirable and full of significance is this instinct!). If there linger still a regret within me, it is not that I am unable to inflict suffering in my turn, but it is perhaps that my love was not great enough and that my forgiveness has come too late. …

Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and "gives the whole show away." The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Humour is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Nature cares only that you reproduce and rear the kids. After you've done that, get out of the way.

Žena zna, žene uvijek znaju, makar ništa ne bilo re?eno, i prije ?e pomisliti da jest nego da nije.

Pravi muškarac je kao vuk. Ili je samotnjak ili je ve?no sa jednom vu?icom. Jurnjavu za ovcama ionako obavlja ovan.

Then she stepped through the door....She stopped so hard that Rainey bumped into her from behind. She went cold. If she'd been a dog, she would have dug her paws in and laid her ears flat and backed out, growling.

it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.

Love is when you feel, like, oh, oh, my heart hurts...Or like when you see a dog and you feel like you have to touch its head.

It's just nature," I point out, wiping my lab bench, the sweet smell of the ethanol solvent. "Put animals in a small, closed space, and the one with the sharpest nails, the pointiest teeth wins." He gins. "Or maybe it's just like musical chairs?" It's a luxury to view it so lightly. But I nod. It's best never to let them see your teeth.

Never make eye contact with a wolf. The wolf will take it as a challenge.  

Freud wrote about it a century ago. How we rummage through the armory of the past to retrieve the weapons needed to repeat, repeat, repeat past traumas. He said it was primitive, instinctual, destructive. Like a demon inside us all.