
I believe that poetry is a
primal impulse within us all. —
Stephen Fry

I think that's still the most
primal fear of all humans: to be eaten. —
Victor Salva

The voice was at once the night and the dawn and the stars and the earth, and every inch of my body calmed at the
primal dominance in it. —
Sarah J. Maas

Creating without claiming. Doing without taking credit. Guiding without interfering. This is
primal virtue. —
Lao-Tzu

Music has a bonding power, it's
primal social cement —
Oliver Sacks

There is the incense of wisdom, whispering, to speak of grace in the dark/there is the scent of
primal animals, grappling with the glory of the dark. —
R. Paul Sardanas

Your
Primal efforts must be fun, energising and easy to maintain at all times, otherwise, you are destined to fail. —
Mark Sisson

Pino was seized by something much more compelling and
primal, as if Anna were not human but a spirit, a melody, a perfect instrument of love. —
Mark T. Sullivan

Fine," Jack said. "Kyrin's yours."
Those words affected me on a deep,
primal level. Mine, I thought. All mine. —
Gena Showalter

There's absolution and purity to fucking that strips people back to their
primal core. —
Kitty French

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very
primal experience. —
Daniel Clowes

A rule for success in today's wild new economic world is this: use the most innovative technologies to deliver the most
primal products and services. —
Martha N. Beck

For, of course, with all animals, including us, to stare is an aggressive act. —
Yann Martel

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most
primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful. —
Christiane Northrup
Primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source. —
Huston Smith

There was something being settled here, and if it was
primal and barbaric and petty and stupid, it was still important. —
Brent Weeks

He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the
Primal Sakti ... He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one. —
Ramakrishna

His face was a gaze of
primal obtuseness. —
James T. Farrell

The four words of power. Obey, Kill, Protect, and Die. Words so
primal, so dangerous, so powerful that they commanded the raw magic itself. —
Ilona Andrews

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our
primal instincts. —
Ori Hofmekler

The profound and
primal cause of obesity will one day be recognized to be the use of cereal and starch foods. —
Emmet Densmore

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where
primal law feeds growth. —
Paul Klee

Our social life is literally
primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. —
Clay Shirky

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a
primal task of leadership. —
Daniel Goleman

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so
primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness. —
Gelett Burgess

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's
primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! —
Tracey Ullman

I really believe hatred is not a
primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear. —
Etgar Keret

There are three
primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play. —
Romulus Linney

It was all
primal instinct. A dog doesn't know why it barks or growls. It just knows something about its environment isn't right and it reacts. —
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most
primal American pop melodies. —
Glen Hirshberg

Laughter filled the line, the sound big and warm and
primal. "We are family now, Bowen Knight! —
Nalini Singh

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my
primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. —
Kurt Cobain

She is twin-born with
primal mysteries, and drinks of life at Time's forgotten source. —
Sarojini Naidu

An organic cookie, is still a cookie. —
Gary Collins

I think a
primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman. —
Armie Hammer

He wanted his handprints marking her body like a
primal claiming, and wanted to hear her beg for more. —
Pepper Winters

It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some
primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted. —
Garth Risk Hallberg

Love is
primal. It is comprised of compassion, care, security, and a leap of faith. —
Jay Allison

Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability. The
primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this. —
Aldous Huxley

The
primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. —
Edward Bellamy

When you want something enough, it brings out
primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.' —
Chris Pine

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a
primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate. —
Danny Meyer

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a
primal way. —
Bret Easton Ellis

They chant until his name no longer sounds like his name. It sounds like the
primal scream of an ancient race. —
Veronica Roth

I've always been really in touch with my
primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be. —
Andy Serkis

YOU have meddled with the
primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE! —
Arthur Jensen

Some
primal termite knocked on wood.
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today. —
Ogden Nash

It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's
primal. —
Angie Harmon

Impulses are flowing through my brain -
primal sparks leaping gaps - all so I can put my arms around you ... —
John Geddes

And as for the smell of me on you, that's more than arousing. That's
primal. —
Anonymous

The race struggle is the
primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German. —
Moses Hess

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a
primal place in our homes, that binds us to the best bits of life. —
Jamie Oliver
Primal anger sharpened in his gut, brimming with a territorial, possessive need. Not a need for her, but a need to portect
a male's duty and honor. —
Sarah J. Maas

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the
primal thing in poetry. —
Max Beerbohm

If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the
primal disease of the mind. —
Sengcan

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and
primal other. —
Carol Shields

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful
primal emotions. —
Margot Kidder

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of
primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. —
Marcus Aurelius

The toil of all that be Helps not the
primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt. A. E. HOUSMAN MORE POEMS —
Arthur C. Clarke

Sean, my mate. Mate of my Heart(Jennifer Ashley,
Primal Bonds). —
Jennifer Ashley

I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of
primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist. —
Anne Lamott

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of
primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead. —
Antony Gormley

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our
primal trust in life. —
Georg Feuerstein

A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a
primal need to be with that person for whatever reason. —
Gabrielle Dennis

The
primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless,
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. —
William Wordsworth

Alas, all traditions lose their
primal purity and we all fail our founders. —
Karen Armstrong

The umbilical cord is a precious lifeline that began in my
primal mother and has come down to me. —
Ilchi Lee