“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.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsChanceEmotionEnvironmentOur LivesMissingCalmScaredScaryControlledClosestCravePrimalRoller CoasterCoastersFreewaysBeing ScaredMergingRisking Your Life Author:Oren Peli
“People want to feel united, they want to have that religious sense they want to feel like at a rave 10,000 people at the rave are feeling the same emotions, a very primal need that's not being fulfilled in the world today.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsFeelsFeelingsTodayReligiousUnitedEmotionFulfilledWorld TodayPrimalRave Author:Robert Greene
“When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'” WantEnoughHappensEmotionWant SomethingPrimal Author:Chris Pine
“The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.” MovingFallSoundEmotionWonderEarsThirdsWitSensualityWitnessCategoriesComposerAnglePrimalSlapstick Author:Michael Ondaatje
“That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.” LyingMotherActingEmotionInvolvedInstinctHardestFakePrimalUltras Author:Patricia Clarkson
“Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.” PeopleWorldMomentsEmotionTechnologyInternetPureCommunicateDevelopingPrimal Author:Robyn
“I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.” BelieveKindEmotionHatredDistortionPrimal Author:Etgar Keret
“Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body.” SaidSometimesBodyRealityLanguageSpaceEmotionCasesExampleBlowAbstractPoeticPreciseMisunderstoodPrimalEmilySpace BetweenDeep Emotions Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.” PeopleTryingHumansLanguageEmotionPrimalHuman Emotions Author:Will Smith