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Quotes About Wildness

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
~ Robert Maclver
Well, I mean, all the best people have a little beast in them.
~ Libba Bray
He caught her cheeks in his hands and kissed her roughly, for they were both savages in those moments, and his tongue swept her mouth and her lips before he moaned, "My beautiful, blue-eyed tigress—" Emma
~ Linda Lael Miller
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.
~ Mark Rowlands
Today they are still strong and self-sufficient, not wilting flowers waiting for a man to help. They shoe their own horses and peel logs and build homes and get anything done that needs doing. They are feminine and wild as a mountain meadow.
~ Jewel
You will see me, like a mountain animal, bitter little animal
~ Anne Carson
Everything about it and the fierce old coast around it, had the ring and taste and feel of utter rightness to me. Its peace and loneliness crept into my veins and ran there, its wildness called out to the deep buried wildness in my heart.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
~ Bruce Sutter
Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From the age of 19 to 30, I was this mad, wild person. I just wanted to have a good time, not get serious with anyone. I didn't allow relationships to happen, and I made it clear to whoever I was with.
~ Ram Kapoor
I was a bad kid, getting into a lot of wild stuff.
~ Booger McFarland
In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
~ Jack Nicholson
I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.
~ Machine Gun Kelly
They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.
~ Mark Ruffalo
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
~ Jay Griffiths
The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work.
~ Christian Slater
For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.
~ Jeremy Miller
si he de vivir, que sea sin timón y en el delirio
~ Roberto Bolano
Let them run while they can.
~ Lisa See
Come to Elfland,' the troll said. The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own home. 'N-no,' said the child. 'Why not?' said the troll. 'Mother made a jam roll this morning,' said the child. And she walked on gravely home.
~ Lord Dunsany
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.
~ Louise Erdrich
But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
~ Rudyard Kipling
the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself
~ Rudyard Kipling
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
~ Robert Morrison MacIver