Heights Quotes

403 Heights quotes by 340 unique authors

One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall — C.E. Murphy
...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump. — Janet Fitch
Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights.… — Elie Wiesel
It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did… — Victoria Alexander
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there… — Amy Carmichael
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding. — Ilona Andrews
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be… — Rick Riordan
Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights. — Scott Westerfeld
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures,… — Anne Lamott
Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it… — Pablo Neruda
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… — Richard Matheson
I scooted over, patting the bed next to me. "No such luck. And now you get to watch forty straight hours of Easton Heights with… — Kiersten White
The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer:… — Paulo Coelho
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one. — Marlon Brando
Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at… — J.R.R. Tolkien
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and… — Honore de Balzac
When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it… — Dion Fortune
This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment… — Jandy Nelson
Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and… — Cecelia Ahern
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure… — Evelyn Underhill
Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those… — Cecelia Ahern

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