Richard Adams Quotes

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath - they have a choice: 1) Fall to pieces; 2) Reassemble yourself and keep walking.

You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

I don't think it's ever hard to punch someone in the face who's just punched you in the face. I would say that anyone who thinks they can walk up to someone and punch them in the face without getting punched back is an idiot. At the end of the day, if someone came up here and punched you, trust me, you would fight back. That is just basic survival.