#natur

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#human-nature #nature

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#nature

In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct. Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#society #writers #writing #nature

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#nature

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree. ↗

— Kim Ki-duk

#controversy #horror #human #human-nature #oriental

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#nature

The sky is an enormous man. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#nature #paganism #sky #nature

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to. ↗

— N. Scott Momaday

#dogs #nature #night #nature

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hidden #nature #often #overcome #seldom

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#human-nature #investment #pride #nature