Mr. Vertigo Quotes

“Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us—every man, woman, and child—and with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable of…the feat….You must learn to stop being yourself. That’s where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you feel your soul pouring out of you, and then shut your eyes. That’s how it’s done. The emptiness inside your body grows lighter than the air around you. Little by little, you begin to weigh less than nothing. You shut your eyes; you spread your arms; you let yourself evaporate. And then, little by little, you lift yourself off the ground.
Like so.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and eventually the public will grow tired of you. You have to keep testing yourself, pushing yourself as hard as you can. You do it for yourself, but in the end it's this struggle to do better that endears you to your fans.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water. The man in the black clothes taught me how to do it, and I’m not going to pretend I learned that trick overnight.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“I'm not going to apologize for things that need no apology.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease. If only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“ماذا يريد المرء من كتاب أكثر من أن يشعر بذلك الوخزمن البهجة والأسى؟”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“I was. Then I wasn't anymore. Then I was. Then I wasn't. Now who knows. If the years have taught me anything, kid, it's that anything can happen.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“Rather than fill me with ecstasy or gladness, this breakthrough overpowered me with dread. I didn't know myself anymore. I was inhabited by something that wasn't me, and that thing was so terrible, so alien in its newness, I couldn't bring myself to talk about it. I let the tears come pouring out of me, and once I started, I wasn't sure I'd ever be able to stop”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“That was sixty-five springs ago, and I can still see him sitting at his desk, scribbling away at his youthful memoirs as the light poured through the window, catching the dust particles that danced around him. If I concentrate hard enough, I can still hear the breath going in and out of his lungs, I can still hear the point of his pen scratching across the paper.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“It hurt too much to look back, so I kept my eyes fixed in front of me, and every time I took another step forward, I drifted farther away from the person I´d been with Master Yehudi. The best part of me was lying under the ground with him in the California desert.”
― Paul Auster, Mr Vertigo

“But that is how it is with want. As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease. If only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“لكنني الآن أكبر من معظم الجدود،وحين تصل إلى ذلك العمر،لا يكون عليك أن تلعب وفقا للقواعد،تذهب إلى حيث تذهب،وتفعل كل ما يجعلك تواصل الحياة،ذلك ما تفعله.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“إننا مضطرون إلى تذكر الموتى،إنه قانون جوهري،إذا لم نتذكرهم،فسوف نفقد الحق في أن نصف أنفسنا بالإنسانية.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“من الصعب أن تبالي بما يحدث لك إذا لم يكن لديك سبب لتواصل الحياة،تقول لنفسك:إنك تود أن تكون ميتا،وبعد ذلك تكون مستعدا لأي شئ - حتى لو كان شيئا مجنونا مثل التلاشي في الليل مع غريب.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“Dünya sarhoş ediyor insanı evlat. Dünyanın bilinmezliği sarhoş ediyor.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo