Top 384 Primal Quotes & Sayings

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal.

Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

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

Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' was one of the pivotal records.

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.

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

Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

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

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

I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters all, and whither she resolves Each in the end when each is overthrown. This ultimate stock we have devised to name Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things, Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.

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

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

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

Comics are primal, down and dirty.

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory.

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

The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.

There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that primal fear that, when we were wild hunter-gatherers, we had as part of our natural lives because maybe something was trying to hunt and gather you as well. We don't have that anymore in life and that's one of the things that horror films and action films provide for us.

No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

We must see ourselves as co-manifestors -- partners in manifestation -- all engaged in the primal act of unfoldment and emergence. Each act of manifestation may be directed toward a specific outcome, but it also contributes to the greater manifestation of the wholeness, love, compassion, and creativity of the primal source from which we all come.

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.

You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

Racism is not primal or instinctive.

I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not just towards violence. It's also towards sex. I feel like horror movies, as much as they're about violence, they're also about sex. It's about our instincts, so in that regard, it's crucial that you honor both of those things.

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.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

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

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

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

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

Being naked in water - there's nothing better. It's primal and freeing.

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

The creation of God itself, I deduced, came from our primal fear.

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

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.

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.

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.

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.

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

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

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

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

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

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

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

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

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.

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

Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more that five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across-- primal.' His smile tipped higher. 'Primal.' 'You're impossible.' 'Me Jev, you Nora.' -Nora & Patch (PG 226)

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

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

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