michael pollak

höhenangst

“Anyone whose goal is “something higher” must expect some day to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? Then why do we feel it even when the observation tower comes equipped with a sturdy handrail? No, vertigo is something other than the 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.”

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

 

den gedanken hatte ich schon einige male, aber so eloquent formulieren konnte ich ihn noch nicht.