Quotes About Impulse

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.

But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving desire to fuck it up.

Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.

I do whatever I feel like doing cause it's in my brain.

My cheat meal is whatever I think about. One thing about me is whatever comes to my mind, if I want it, I'm going to eat it.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

The thing looked cut and dried to them. A nasty affair between two rather nasty people, too much loving, too much drinking, too much proximity ending in a savage hatred and a murderous impulse and death.

People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.

it is almost impossible in the heat of the moment to understand long-term consequences.

Every impulse—every impulse without exception—is generated by complex electrochemical reactions in the brain. Why would the religious impulse be any different? Knowing the neural mechanics of the religious impulse does not undermine the legitimacy of religious belief any more than knowing the chemical process of romantic attraction makes the feeling any less real or the object of our affection any less worthy.

The origin of the religious impulse, in other words, is not rooted in our quest for meaning or our fear of the unknown. It is not born of our involuntary reactions to the natural world. It is not an accidental consequence of the complex workings of our brains. It is the result of something far more primal and difficult to explain: our ingrained, intuitive, and wholly experiential belief that we are, whatever else we are, embodied souls.

If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to.

He reasoned that, as there was nothing he could do about his feelings, he must avoid acting on them.

Something's not right. Without applying rationale as a mediator, select your first impulse. What would it be?

We all pursue what we think is best for us, even if it means our extinction. Sometimes, especially if it means that.

It seems to me that when you are young, you think about sex most of the time, but you don't reflect on it much

The words had somehow managed to bypass reason on the way out of his mouth

and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of impulse and realities (the blossoming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees) then let love freeze me out. (from i must become a menace to my enemies)

The gung-ho spirit overrode caution, as ignorance triumphed over reason.

My body's been here before a thousand times, and it gets on with the job without asking my brain if it has anything to say about opening fire.

snorted coke because a boyfriend told her

I've always wanted to kick a duck up the ass.