Vertigo Quotes

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a… — Charles Baudelaire
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely… — Patricia K Page
And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. — Ogden Nash
I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a… — Kim Novak
Floyd Sklootâ€™s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one manâ€™s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo… — Dinty W. Moore
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily… — Mignon McLaughlin
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of… — Susan Sontag
I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the… — Katie Leclerc
My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a… — Ben Affleck
It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas. — Bruno Heller
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going… — Hari Kunzru
The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to… — Kim Novak
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the… — Laura Hillenbrand
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. — Salman Rushdie
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear… — Milan Kundera
we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to… — Milan Kundera
I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges

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