Impulse Quotes

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 10. Victor Frankenstein.

I have a suicide impulse.

– Hal Holbrook

There’s a general impulse to distract the grieving person – as if you could.

– Joan Didion

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

– Brenda Ueland

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

– Alfre Woodard

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

– George Santayana

I’ve always had this impulse to be destructive.

– Russell Brand

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