Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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.
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.
Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo. ' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.
