Quote by Salman Rushdie
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

Other quotes by Salman Rushdie

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie

Category:
History
Read Quote

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie

Category:
History
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Fear
category

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. – James Hastings

Category:
Fear

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

Category:
Fear

I am grateful that I didnt let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. – Mariska Hargitay

Category:
Fear

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. – Aulus Persius Flaccus

Category:
Fear

Random Quotes

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I dont know now either. – Amitabh Bachchan

Category:
Politics

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. – Doris Kearns Goodwin

Category:
Leadership

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. – Kenneth L. Pike

Category:
Society

Family makes a house a home. – Jennifer Hudson

Category:
Home