Philippe Petit Quotes

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

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

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social, and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual motion machines. It is now clear that if you live at all, you will live dangerously, not only during the instant crisis but for all our lives

I'm scared of heights and I'm scared of the ocean.

I have a major phobia of height and water.

I hate heights and I hate every single creepy crawly going.

I do have a fear of heights.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?