Vertigo Quotes

37 quotes by 33 authors

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. — W G Sebald
He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly.… — Margaret Atwood
Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something. — Eva Ibbotson
My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my lower neck and… — Kim Harrison
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. — Victor Hugo
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing — Doris Lessing
It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo. — Arthur Rimbaud
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.… — Yann Martel
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of… — Robert Barany
Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years… — Robert Barany
That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of… — Philip Kaufman
I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system, the rhetoric and ideologies surrounding democracy, capitalism, religion, family life...If… — Alix Olson
Champagne and Hitchcock's Vertigo...a perfect combination, if I do say so myself. — Alison Brie
And this is LOVE - The vertigo of Heaven Beyond the cage of words, Suddenly to be naked In the searchlight of truth . — Ritu Ghatourey

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