Basic Instincts Quotes

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

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

Instincts and fundamentals take over sometimes.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

I believe that creativity is an important human experience and element in the same way as sleeping, eating, having sex.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

In the short term if I feel loneliness, it's like any other biological signals. It's like hunger or thirst. It's alerting me that something that's critical for my survival is missing.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.