Top 77 Primal Quotes

Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can’t ‘rationally’ transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

Art is a primal need – even under siege, especially under siege.

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.

Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don’t want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It’s this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.

I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.

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!

I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

Cyclops, that’s like this primal fear. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a small creature living in our huge fish tank at home, and at night, it was going to grow to full size and come after me.

Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.

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

I think I’m just a little, for a lack of a better word, primal in how I operate in all aspects of life.

The expressive body is not literal; it’s very primal, and that’s what I feel when I make the best of my work. It’s coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.

There’s a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that’s exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

Music is a gut thing. You’re working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There’s a congregation.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more.

I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we’re still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it’s meaningful, then it’s sustainable – and a meaningful life is a longer life.

I love horror movies because they’re really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that’s what’s cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely – it’s really kind of primal.

I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times.

When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment – we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It’s the opening for friendship.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I’m telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

Trapped’ is the story of a guy stuck in an apartment with no food, no water and no electricity, and of his survival based on his primal instincts.

The desire to abdicate, to give up – for me, that’s primal.

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

‘Six Feet Under’ was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and ‘True Blood’ is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.

The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again.

We can appear to be tough as nails, but guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that’s exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

In later life, we don’t easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our ‘concerns.’ Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, ‘Mom liked you better’ and, ‘You got your own room and I didn’t.’

I love going to horror movies – especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal instincts that we all have in the relative safety of the theater.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

When you’re sitting ringside, there’s a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It’s just two guys going at it in the ring – there’s no team, no one to pass the ball to – and there’s a certain excitement to that.

Racism is not primal or instinctive.

I’ve always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.

In the modern world, there’s a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear.

People react to ‘Drive’ in a way that is very primal.

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

It’s a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It’s funny and accessible.

Being a good mother is really so hard and so important, and it’s this thing that all people long for. Think of all the soldiers who cry out for their mothers on the battlefield as they die. It’s a primal relationship.

The best moments in comics come from a primal image that captures the emotion and the conflict. What you add are the pieces that get you to the point and what happens next.

Well, ‘They Live’ was a primal scream against Reaganism of the ’80s. And the ’80s never went away. They’re still with us. That’s what makes ‘They Live’ look so fresh – it’s a document of greed and insanity. It’s about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.

There’s just something about dance. It’s like a primal thing in all of us.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That’s our eyesight. That’s how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

The figure of the witch was interesting to me, because of the primal, archetypical witch nightmares I had, even as an adult. But as a kid, it started with Margaret Hamilton in ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ as this inescapable horror.

Sure, the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal. It’s all about connecting to other people, sharing emotion. It’s our new feathers or face paint. It’s all very raw.

Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you’ve ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.

The fear of public speaking is a primal fear. You can train your body to not be crazy when you’re doing it, but it truly is a primal fear.