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Quotes About Dizziness

The world spun around and he spun around too.
~ Louis Sachar
Everything seemed to grow blacker as I sat there, except for the fireflies whose tiny pulsing lights drew arcs through the dark summer air. On off . . . on off . . . on off . . . on off. The longer I stared, the dizzier I got, until I felt as if the world was tipping and pitching me forward down the mountainside into the long throat of the night.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eyes as in the abyss . . . Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I don't do alcohol anymore — I get the same effect just standing up fast.
~ Anonymous
They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
~ Anonymous
In you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness… Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on… I never feel the brakes. I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine, then it makes me dizzy.
~ Anais Nin
Okay," I said hoarsely as the blood left my head and headed south for the winter.
~ John Connolly
Anxiety," Kierkegaard said, "is the dizziness of freedom.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Tracy stood up and found that the room was swaying around him in a manner that would have been more disconcerting if it had been less familiar.
~ Fredric Brown
I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'
~ Olivia Colman
Laura decided to send a cable to Lady Honoria after all, on the chance that she might still reach her in Baden-Baden. But while she was planning what to say, she felt, all of a sudden, the room start to spin about her, dizzying her, so that she fell back across the bed and across the pillows wondering what was happening to her until everything went as pitch-black as night and she sank down and down and down into a dark, endless tunnel.
~ Rosemary Rogers
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Moira had power now, she'd been set loose, she'd set herself loose. She was now a loose woman. I think we found this frightening. Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy. Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure. In the upper reaches of the atmosphere you'd come apart, you'd vaporize, there would be no pressure holding you together.
~ Margaret Atwood
She was dizzy with her own feelings, her own voice. She was flying around on a carnival machine that would not stop, she could not make it stop and she screamed and screamed.
~ Marilyn French
Anxiety may be the dizziness of freedom.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
So long as I give myself up to physical exercise, manual labor, I am happy, fulfilled; once I stop, I am seized by dizziness, and I can think of nothing but giving up for good.
~ Emil M. Cioran
It is as though they stood in a spinning world.
~ Arthur Miller
I have horrible headaches three or four times a week easily. I get really dizzy in the heat; my headaches are worse in the heat when I'm working and stuff.
~ Brady Jandreau
Altitude sickness, also known as mountain sickness, is caused by a lack of oxygen at great heights. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, and shortness of breath. Climbers traveling up Mount Erebus train for days by climbing to gradually increasing heights.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!
~ James Hogg
A sudden head rush hit me as I entered. I stayed still, waiting for my legs to come back to me. When the dizziness receded, I headed into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of ice water. I drank it in big gulps and poured another. I would be hurting tomorrow, no question about it. Exhaustion
~ Harlan Coben
I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.
~ Sheri Reynolds
I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having nowhere to hang my hat.
~ Kate Bornstein