Quotes About Wildness

May the Old Ones forgive me, but as the leagues rolled past our carriage windows, the pleasure of the hunt came over me too and I reverted to a forgotten farmer wildness. Eventually, I no longer had to force myself to kill. And yet, at the time, I could not find the will to be ashamed of it, which means I must accept that this cruel greed is a part of me, thankfully hidden in the regulated, civilised world of Sacramante, but always present in the deepest corners of my souls.

There was nothing civilized about sex with Eric.

I learned a lot from watching actors like Michelle Gomez and Richard Coyle and Miranda Otto, but particularly in the beginning Michelle because I've never seen someone so fearlessly wild.

He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...

A quick puke, two rails of blow and she was solid.

My dad told me all about it. Wildness comes over teenagers like a disease and they go around kissing all over the place.

All nations contain some elements of wildness. None have institutionalized the chaos as has the United States.

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the human child.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Understanding that nature is not normative does not mean that anything goes. The fears come from the mistaken identification of wildness with the forest itself. Instead the landscape is an arena for the interaction of natural and social forces, a kind of display, and one that like all displays is not fully under the control of its authors.

play, you big wild gypsy girl, until beauty and wildness and longing are one.

they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

She had as much use for a baby as a lion has for fins.

I'm not a lady, Arya wanted to tell her, I'm a wolf.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

He was powerless to stop himself. His lips peeled off his teeth as his muscles churned and his hips thrashed against her. Drenched in sweat, head spinning, mindless, breathless, he took everything she was offering him. Took it and demanded more, becoming an animal as she became one, too, until they were nothing but wildness. He

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

She got lost then in the striations in the iris of Edda's left eye. These were immensely complex, and of all colors, having about them the same balance of order and wildness as exposed tree roots, tendrils of smoke in the wind, tongues of wild flame, the swirling of water where rivers came together.