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Quotes About Wildness

Aujourd'hui encore, je ne puis voir sans plaisir un enfant trop sérieux parler gravement, tendrement à sa mère enfant; j'aime ces douces amitiés sauvages qui naissent loin des hommes et contre eux. Je regarde longuement ces couples puérils et puis je me rappelle que je suis un homme et je détourne la tête.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Why aren't people afraid of their dogs? How long can what was once a wild animal deny its wildness?
~ Tove Jansson
When reeling a fish in to not simply feel "the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue".
~ Unknown
the freedom of pandemonium
~ Paul Theroux
He used the word savages with affection, as if he liked them a little for it. In his nature was a respect for wildness. He saw it as a personal challenge, something that could be put right with an idea or a machine. He felt he had the answer to most problems, if anyone cared to listen.
~ Paul Theroux
All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life would be much simpler if I abandoned my humanity and ran wild with them, gave myself over to animalistic pleasures, free of the burdens of duty and responsibility.
~ Darren Shan
We rutted like cats.
~ Darren Shan
A drop of the bloodred liquid of the blusher mushroom , which causes potentially lethal paralysis. A petal of deathsweet, which can cause a sleep that lasts a hundred years. A sliver of wraithberry, which makes the blood race and induces a kind of wildness before stopping the heart. And a seed of everapple- faerie fruit- which muddles the minds of mortals.
~ Holly Black
Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.
~ Unknown
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
~ Unknown
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul. Where, finally, the geography around us corresponds to the geography of our heart.
~ Unknown
So we pour in data from the past to fuel the decision-making mechanisms created by our models, be they linear or nonlinear. But therein lies the logician's trap: past data from real life constitute a sequence of events rather than a set of independent observations, which is what the laws of probability demand.[...]It is in those outliers and imperfections that the wildness lurks.
~ Peter L. Bernstein
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.
~ Peter L. Bernstein
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.3
~ Peter L. Bernstein
You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.
~ David Hare
Why does everybody think I'm so wild? I'm not wild. I happen to stumble onto wildness. It gets in my path.
~ Unknown
I'm wolf." So shove that down your throat and choke on it.
~ Unknown
They had known each other intimately, as husband and wife, countless times, He had held her with tenderness and passion, but never with such rampant wildness.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It has occurred to me," she ventured, "that the family temperament isn't well suited to stewardship." Amusement glinted in his eyes. "Speaking as a man who has the family temperament in full measure, I agree. I wish I could claim to have a mother from steady, pragmatic stock, to balance out the Ravenel wildness. Unfortunately she was worse.
~ Lisa Kleypas
know what to do. He'll calm Briny's wildness, push the
~ Unknown
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full-blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild.
~ Joan Didion
I just need to be a little crazy. All my life I've been good, but now I'm thinking "what the hell". All I want is to mess around.
~ Avril Lavigne
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
~ Vladimir Nabokov