Quotes About Threshold

By itself," he said, "pain is not always enough. There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death. But for everyone there is something unendurable—something that cannot be contemplated.

Between genius and madness there is often not the thickness of a hair.

Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.

Ogden had understood that every life had at its center a beginning that was not birth, a moment when the catch on the lock in one's life opens, and out it comes, starting forward.

All I know is a door into the dark

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

Se dio cuenta de que era mucho más fácil hallarse a las puertas de algo que haberlas cruzado.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

It's a lot easier, she realised, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age.

It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain.

And so we learn the Mystery: the feared Shadow, the Guardian of the Threshold, is none other than the God, who is named Guardian of the Gates, in his aspect of Death.

Princess Diana holds in the threshold for a second longer, checks over her shoulder that her Prince is out of earshot and whispers softly in my ear, 'Sorry to leave early, though secretly I'm quite glad. It's Spitting Image tonight, and I want to watch it in my room. They hate it of course. I absolutely adore it.

where the world ends is where you must begin

The gate is the key to the kingdom.

Everything has a limit.

Nos adaptamos a nuestras nuevas y mejores circunstancias y después bajamos el listón de los niveles de incomodidad y riesgo que consideramos intolerables.

At the threshold of the divine, how to know But indirectly, to hear the static as Pattern, to hear the rough-edged white noise as song— Wait, not as song—but to intuit the songbird, Within the thorn thicket, safe, hidden there. Every moment is not a time for song or singing. — Eric Pankey, from "Ash," Crow-Work (Milkweed Editions, 2015)

the threshold between the hospital and its outside was like a threshold between worlds, between media.

The banner between sleep and waking had torn and now people and things were passing through it.