Top 55 Visceral Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Visceral Quotes from famous people such as Ephraim Mirvis, Ben Marcus, Andrew Bird, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jennifer Egan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish con

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.
Ephraim Mirvis
I work, and then I leave the office, and I’m with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don’t feel like I’m exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.
Ben Marcus
Since I first picked up the violin, I’ve been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.
Andrew Bird
I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
I don’t really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, ‘The Keep,’ that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.
Jennifer Egan
I can’t imagine writing a screenplay where I didn’t feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.
Nick Hornby
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
Paolo Bacigalupi
If selling had been part of his job description, Rusbridger, who never met a pound he had to earn that didn’t disgust him in some visceral way, would have been disqualified long ago. Indeed, his early enthusiasm for the Internet – and a continuing principle of faith for him – was that it was free.
Michael Wolff
Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you’re trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
Geddy Lee
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you’re the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
P. J. O’Rourke
It’s hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.
Carrie Brownstein
As an actor, when you’re winning the moment over, there’s a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
‘Up the Junction’ went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn’t necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage.
Gurinder Chadha
Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
Christopher Eccleston
My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we’d get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I’d hold in my nose is of mother’s vegetable soup.
Tim Minchin
There’s something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It’s powerful.
Kevin O’Leary
I don’t know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I’m going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.
Todd Rundgren
From the moment I saw ‘Camelot’ as a kid, the organic inclination of performing before a live audience is raw and visceral. Once you’re out there, there’s no yelling ‘Cut!’ or any such thing as a do-over because that moment has passed, and you’re in it as it’s happened and gone, sharing it with everyone.
LaTanya Richardson
Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.
Paul Kalanithi
It’s funny because you start watching Mister Rogers so young, it’s sort of in this subliminal part of your brain. I think that’s why people have such a visceral reaction to him.
Marielle Heller
I personally am a very big fan of ‘Romeo + Juliet.’ It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.
George C. Wolfe
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I’m listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
Kiefer Sutherland
When I read ‘The Water Diviner,’ I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That’s the real arrogance of a director!
Russell Crowe
There’s a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It’s about making a strong visceral connection. That’s something that I think great classical music can have, too.
Joshua Roman
The Cold War’s end pushed disarmament down most leaders’ agendas. It’s a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It’s not visceral. It’s not like a starving child.
Michael Douglas
When I’m sitting writing, I know that something works if I’ve made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
Brit Marling
I don’t think I’m an artist or that I’m doing anything superintellectual. What’s important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it’s beautiful.
Joseph Altuzarra
I’ve got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I’ve always been interested in music from other cultures.
Bryce Dessner
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it’s to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
Bob Shacochis
Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.
Stephen Graham Jones
Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
Ben Dolnick
In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost

In talking to founder after founder; I’ve heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.
Maynard Webb
For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can’t put my finger on it, but in a man’s world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.
Kurt Russell
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.
Geraldo Rivera
I’ve never formally trained in acting, so I’m very instinctual and visceral with decisions.
Brittany Murphy
I farm – there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days, and I get on with the business of living.
Sandra Lerner
I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.
Shawn Levy
The emotional compact between football clubs and their supporters is visceral and usually lifelong.
David Olusoga
The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I’m all for it.
Cary Elwes
Clearly, on a visceral human front, I oppose any wall, anywhere, between any people – period.
Oscar Munoz
In the theater, it’s a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
LaTanya Richardson
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan’s messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
Tomas Borge
I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.
Johann Johannsson
You’re not a baby boomer if you don’t have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
P. J. O’Rourke
My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I’m a visceral guy.
Dwayne Johnson
The greatest impressions I have from watching ‘Dynasty’ were the fashion but, also, these women who had these very visceral emotions that they took out on each other for various reasons.
Sallie Patrick
Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize – it’s a far more visceral experience. It’s really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person’s backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It’s just kind of impossible.
Jesse Eisenberg
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It’s disembowelment. It’s just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It’s not for everybody.
Aisha Tyler
Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.
Stacy London
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you’re inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.
Rick Yancey