Quotes About Vertiginous

And why wander in these labyrinths? Once more, for aesthetic reasons; because this present infinity, these "vertiginous symmetries," have their tragic beauty. The form is more important than the content.

Lying down, I close my eyes.  I see an abyss that opens vertiginously, like an endless pit that deepens, looking into a kind of uncontrollable water, which widens itself with hallucinatory speed, and I'm dragged into this movement; delirium of simplest cosmogony, a birth-giving abyss indefinitely itself.

Suddenly he understood this as a condition of things – if you could see the patterns the waves made, or remember the shapes of a million small white clouds, there it would be, a boiling, inexplicable, vertiginous similarity in all the processes of the world, roaring silently away from you in ever-shifting repetitions, always the same, never the same thing twice.

The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with possibility: it didn't necessarily help you grasp those possibilities. I still had no idea what I was going to do. I felt directionless and lost in the crowd. I couldn't yet see how the city worked, but I began to find out.

At Peter's court, the tournament of power would be still more vicious. The prizes were glittering, the ascent vertiginous, the descent sudden and the end often lethal.

Yo debo tener esperanzas como de paso, vertiginosas, si es posible, y no pensar demasiado en que se cumplan; ese debe ser, también, el sentido del agua, su inclinación instintiva.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

A medida que el viejo funicular ascendía lentamente la pendiente vertiginosa, Edmond Kirsch contemplaba la cumbre irregular de la montaña.

But, with a bewildering contrariness, the intimacies of the Mars were between us and too vertiginous to cross.