#savage

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. ↗

— Anne Rice

#civilization #savage-garden #beauty

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show. ↗

— Angus Young

#back #being #cave #come #down

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. ↗

— Granville Stanley Hall

#individual #past #race #savage #stage

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#develop #fierce #forest #human #men

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#fresh #generation #invasion #new #new generation

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#fact #hinders #individual #logically #means

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#architecture #art #civilization #first #first time

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conscience #get #huge #i #me