Acrophobia Quote by Peter Ackroyd Download Open image ““...it is a dreadfull thing to look down Praecipices.”” — Peter Ackroyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acrophobia Falling Fear-of-heights Vertigo
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“I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“That above all else. They did not look out their windows. No matter what noises or dreadful possibilities, no matter how awful the unknown,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.” — Jack Whyte Copy Share Image
“I looked plenty close, Mireille, and saw many beautiful things but I also saw terrible things. I can’t pretend otherwise. You shouldn’t expect me… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“some things are so awful, you can't look them square in the face and some things make no sense no matter what angle you… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without the recognition of death; we were too young to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“dyer. (Looking at him scornfully) So that is why Wits swarm like Egypt's Frogs. If I were a Writer now, I would wish to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“But then suddenly there was no place higher to go. I felt my cracked lips stretch into a painful grin. I was on top… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Well, the gondola operator—whose name was ‘Happy,’ I might add—failed to inform me that about sixty seconds into the trip, the floor under the… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
