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Quotes About Animalistic

I'm a testiculate animal, Ferdinand, and when I have a fact, I hang on to it for dear life
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Wolf's first thought
~ Malcolm Gladwell
kiss, a pat on the rump, and a deep inhalation of my scent, as if he and I were dogs.
~ Amy Tan
Her elongated eyes did not close as other women's eyes did, but like the eyes of tigers, pumas and leopards, the two lids meeting lazily and slowly; and they seemed slightly sewn together towards the nose, making them narrow, with a lascivious, oblique glance falling from them like the glance of a woman who does not want to see what is being done to her body. All this gave her an air of being made love to, which aroused the Baron as soon as he met her.
~ Anais Nin
But now his body feels like some dumb beast he merely exists inside, and every now and then it lets him know it needs to do something: To eat. To piss or shit. To move or just lie down and rest.
~ Andre Dubus III
Mefistófeles: "De sol e de mundos nada sei dizer, vejo apenas como os homens se atormentam. O pequeno Deus do mundo [o homem] continua na mesma e está tão admirável assim como no primeiro dia. Um pouco melhor ele viveria, não lhe tivesses dado o brilho da luz celeste; ele chama isto razão e lança mão dela somente para ser mais animalesco do que cada animal.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Below the surface of the most civilised human beings, the hunger-lust darts and snaps like a fish, snatches and rends like a bird, growls like a wolf, snarls like a panther, buzzes like a hornet, bleats like a sheep and stamps like a bull; and there is nothing so aggravating to hungry stomachs as the sight of dirty plates pushed away from satisfied rival stomachs.
~ John Cowper Powys
On the outside, the man of today is carefully groomed, perhaps unnecessarily and over carefully clean; while inside he is dirtier than the dirtiest animal—whose anus is as clean as its mouth, provided said animal has not been "domesticated" by "civilized" man.
~ Arnold Ehret
I fear that the animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason – as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
They were reducing us to animals—to penned-up animals—to our animal nature. They were rubbing our noses in that nature. We were to consider ourselves subhuman.
~ Margaret Atwood
Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
She's the kind of woman who would eat her young.
~ B.J. Daniels
Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.
~ Frans de Waal
People react to 'Drive' in a way that is very primal.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Das Widermenschliche, das Tierische besteht darin, im Gefühle stehen zu bleiben und nur durch dieses sich mitteilen zu können.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals
~ Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
Los animales -que viven todos de sus propios esfuerzos- no conocen la miseria, pues ignoran la jerarquía y la explotación. Este fenómeno aparece sólo con el hombre, el único animal que ha esclavizado a sus semejantes; solamente el ser humano es capaz de tanto desprecio de sí mismo.
~ Emil Cioran
Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.
~ Bela Karolyi
The lesson is that you're just an animal in a cage, no more than that, no better than that.
~ Stephen King
My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.
~ Hugh Jackman
That sweet muddy smell was purely animal, like the deepest corner of a bear's cave. It was almost foreign to me, this lived-in, overnight odor.
~ Gillian Flynn
She imagined what it was like to be a big, hairy animal, cock flopping as you walked, like a careless, unruly advertisement
~ Gregory Benford
No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.
~ Jonathan Ames