Basic Instinct Quotes

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.

Eats first, morals after.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Every need got an ego to feed.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.