Quotes About Heights

Virtual reality has already proved useful in treating phobias and PTSD. It can help people overcome a fear of heights, for example, through simulations of standing on a balcony or walking across a bridge.

Where the rock's nakedness repels the shy foot, where the discouraged plant will no longer spread the seduction of its seed, where the ice-axe strikes only sparks, there I have found my pasture, above the blue kingdom of the flies. I am an animal of the heights.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

the reality of fear: your not afraid of the dark, your afraid of what's in it. your not afraid of heights, your afraid of falling. your not afraid of the people around you, your afraid of what they might think. your not afraid to love, your afraid of love not coming back. your not afraid to try again, your afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.

I walk towards the car but on second thought step back to the railing for a final look. Enormous. Anonymous. I could hurtle myself down the walls of this chasm, and never be found.

fragrance of the short grass and sturdy mountain-plants, for the way is steep and leads directly up to the summits above.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

It's great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.

Growth stationery from "X. Drew Butler," advising the mayor of Airway Heights to prepare for major expansion

I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.

É melhor cair das nuvens que de um segundo andar

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

The lobby was a large chamber carpeted in ancient maroon pile, its darkness only slightly relieved by a few small candles. Stairs rose off into black heights, and the mouths of corridors yawned on either side.

I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.

My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn't that bad (I have a strong heart), it's the sudden stops that are painful. Believe me — I experienced it once.

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.

I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.

One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

Climb ye the heights of liberty and cease not in well doing until you have planted the banner of the Red, the Black and the Green on the hilltops of Africa.

you are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Good, " she said, "because if you fall off a skyscraper, I'll be so mad at you.