Quotes About Instinct

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

The human form was never [formed] to beget children. This tendency among people to cohabit is nothing but animal instinct inherited from all the previous lives of evolution from the stone to the human form.

A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

Biology always beats will power.

licorice to you. But to birds and other enemies, they are colors of DANGER, telling

Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

Take some more advice from Dr. Micah. Don't give women too much time to think. It never ends up good for either of you.

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.

Perhaps periods of anxiety, sadness, panic, and sheer craziness are just part of the mental continuum that nature has provided to help us stay alive, make babies, and pass on genes.

Morte silenciosa A noite cedeu-nos o instinto para o fundo de nós imigrou a ave a inquietação Serve-nos a vida mas não nos chega: somos resina de um tronco golpeado para a luz nos abrimos nos lábios dessa incurável ferida Na suprema felicidade existe uma morte silenciada

E pergunto: por que nos ensinaram essa merda de sermos humanos? Seria melhor sermos bichos, tudo instinto. Podemos violar, morder, matar. Sem culpa, sem juízo, sem perdão. A desgraça é esta: só uns poucos aprenderam a lição da humanidade.

Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.

Todas as manhãs a gazela acorda sabendo que tem que correr mais veloz que o leão ou será morta. Todas as manhãs o leão acorda sabendo que deve correr mais rápido que a gazela ou morrerá de fome. Não importa se és um leão ou uma gazela: quando o Sol desponta o melhor é começares a correr.

that logic and reason, it turns out, are not at the center of our decision-making processes.

Exactly what the great white eats in an emergency is a mystery ichthyologists solved by the late twentieth century after decades of investigation: whatever it wishes.

Life will find a way.

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

for instinctively he knew that any abiding love would have a cost.