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Quotes About Vertigo

I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
~ Daniel Espinosa
To be not a man, but the projection of another man's dream- what incomparable humiliation, what vertigo!
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Mais ce vertige dans le choeur du coeur de l'absence. Séduire et raconter toute la nuit comme si comme si. Détruire. Circuler dans le sang tumultueux, les orgies des appels dans l'histoire. Défoncer les images, je lèche ton corps, t'appelle, mouille les blessures, échancre l'armature, l'abandon illusoire à flots de salive.
~ Élise Turcotte
This animal body, for all its susceptibility and vertigo, remains the primary instrument of all our knowing, as the capricious earth remains our primary cosmos.
~ David Abram
It felt like his head was spinning faster than his body, and his stomach flipped over with the dizziness.
~ James Dashner
Il muro. Il muro sfidava l'immaginazione, la seduceva e la vinceva. Il muro era così inconcepibilmente vasto e perpendicolare che la sua cima, la sua base e i suoi lati superavano la capacità umana di vedere. Sarebbe bastato l'immenso senso di vertigine che dava, per uccidere un uomo.
~ Douglas Adams
In fact, vertigo is explained by some not as the fear of falling, but as the temptation to jump!
~ Douglas Adams
Lucent wisps spiraled up from the mass, forming a columned portal supporting a hot-white door. My vision clouded, like snow on a tele-a hot-white door. My vision clouded, like snow on a television screen. Vertigo gripped me.
~ Kat Richardson
BUSCAR No es un verbo sino un vértigo. No indica acción. No quiere decir ir al encuentro de alguien sino yacer porque alguien no viene.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
existing simultaneously in the World of Minecraft. One timeline was of "Gang of Ninjas" and other was of "Minecraft Agent". Many centuries ago, Dark Lord who is the supreme Master of dark energy, lost its most powerful warrior "Vertigo".
~ Alex Anderson
Karim s'adossa au mur, pris d'un vertige. Puis il scruta sa montre. Il avait bien tué deux heures. Mais ces heures l'avaient tué en retour.
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
Something about the idea of a tower that headed straight down played with a twinned sensation of vertigo and a fascination with structure. I could not tell which part I craved and which I feared, and I kept seeing the inside of nautilus shells and other naturally occurring patterns balanced against a sudden leap off a cliff into the unknown
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But as we climbed back up, I had a moment of vertigo despite being in such an enclosed space, a kind of panic for a moment, in which the walls suddenly had a fleshy aspect to them, as if we traveled inside of the gullet of a beast.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La Dolce Vita,' because this music has so much history. They're weighed with the history of music. They come from somewhere, they have a past.
~ Alexandre Desplat
Until I read about it nearly twenty years later, in a book about instrument flying, I didn't realize that I suffered throughout our flight from something called copilot vertigo. The phenomenon is especially severe in tandem-seat designs like Cubs, where visibility over the pilot in front is limited.
~ Rinker Buck
Do you love me?" His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool's chance at that
~ G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled."How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?
~ G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Dizzying, this happiness.
~ Jenny Offill
Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.
~ Roberto Mangabeira Unger
My love for Addie is terrifying, a perpetual state of vertigo, an ongoing condition of living on the edge of an abyss.
~ Donna Freitas
The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how the impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
~ Anne Carson
Una vertigine dell'immutabile, come se nella società non fosse cambiato nulla. Nella confusione delle voci, percepite d'un tratto come separate dai corpi, sapevamo che il pranzo di famiglia era un luogo in cui poteva sopraggiungere la follia e ci si sarebbe potuti trovare a rovesciare il tavolo urlando.
~ Annie Ernaux
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
~ Salman Rushdie
The feet of Raoul were over the edge of the cliff, bathed in that void which is peopled by vertigo, and provokes to self-annihilation.
~ Alexandre Dumas