Vertigo Quotes

“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 of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”

“I loved Verti. Until she jumped. That is when I felt Vertigo.”

“Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo.”

“It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. 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 it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76”

“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”

“Can't make a life and death decision when you are fighting off what I call choice-vertigo”

“It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.”

“He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.Nothing is more sublime.”

“Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.”