358 Quotes About Instinct

Instinct is the great director in the formation of all relationships.

Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don't need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. In society, women are referred to as "the fairer sex". But in the wild, the female species can be far more ferocious than their male counterparts. Defending the nest is both our oldest and strongest instinct. And sometimes, it can also be the most gratifying.

The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Instinct was clawing at him like an importuning dog.

Home is where your heart is.

Be true to what you feel in your heart.

Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.

Instinct tells me to close my eyes and I plunge myself back into the darkness, back to my world of being seen but not heard.

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.