Impulse

Famous quotes containing the word impulse:

“What is desire?—
The impulse to make someone else complete?
That woman would set sodden straw on fire.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“God once spoke to people by name.
The sun once imparted its flame.
One impulse persists as our breath;
The other persists as our faith.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)