Quotes About Heights

I've never really had a fear of heights; in fact, I love being up high, so hanging from wires high above everyone's head has always sort of felt natural for me.

Buttresses were one of the prime structural features of Gothic architecture: by accommodating the thrust of the vaults transferred to them from strategic points, they allowed for walls pierced by a multitude of windows to rise to spectacular heights, filling the church with heavenly light—the aspiration of all Gothic builders.

Heights: For all of you who are afraid of heights, think of it like this: The greater the altitude, the more intense the fear may be, but the farther you are from splattering.

if you want to experience a mountain peak, you either elevate yourself to that level, or simply look up.

There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice.

And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops...

Branch by branch, Rowdy and I climbed toward the top of the tree, to the bottom of the sky.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...

As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling, so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups.

People are funny. They look down from all sorts of heights and then if the looking down has no effect they get unsure.

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.

I could not believe that I was sitting in the sky

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. To

I am terrified of being pushed out of a plane at 10,000ft with my hands tied behind my back.

In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.

George Vines felvitt a tornya tetejébe, ahol az áruló Cooke feje van kit?zve, meg Harrisoné a Westminster Hall másik oldalán. Innen jól láttam ?ket, és a szép londoni panorámát is.

when I'mstanding on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of housesand cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things thatI'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang on to the railand I'm going to fall over and be killed.

Though he was scared even to look up, much less down, he raised his hands and caught the side of the gondola. With a stream of curse words known principally to the fourth class of the Accademia San Pietro in Rome, he pulled himself back.

So aggressive was the manner in which this question was put that at first I thought the pair of them were probably drunk: a state which, in addition, the discrepancy between their respective heights for some reason quite illogically helped to suggest.

At the same time, a faint sense of disappointment superimposed on an otherwise absorbing inner experience was in its way suitably Proustian too: a reminder of the eternal failure of human life to respond a hundred per cent; to rise to the greatest heights without allowing at the same time some suggestion, however slight, to take shape in indication that things could have been even better.