Instincts Quotes

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”

“It came as an unmistakable indication to me of how low I had sunk the day I noticed, with a pinching of the heart, that I ate like an animal, that this noisy, frantic, unchewing wolfing-down of mine was exactly the way Richard Parker ate.”

″[T]o think that I’m a strict vegetarian. To think that when I was a child I always shuddered when I snapped open a banana because it sounded to me like the breaking of an animal’s neck. I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible.”

“And once you are in motion, do not allow your thoughts to distract you. Think without thinking, so that you act as if out of instinct and not reason.”

“The display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.”