Quotes About Threshold

What comes before and after we know not.

The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.

he was like a man on the brink of his own creation.

The degree of pain we are experiencing at any time almost always includes two variables: the stimulus "causing" the discomfort, and the threshold for tolerance—that is, the capacity to overcome or perhaps reduce the sensation itself.

Ahora, en esta hora inocente yo y la que fui nos sentamos en el umbral de mi mirada

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.

Across a threshold, and somewhere far beyond, there is a hill where the valley people often gather when the day's work is done. From it you can watch the glittering night unfold, and see the whole magic sweep when the shooting stars begin to stream like jewels across the sky. Even the deer come out to watch, unafraid.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

A door handle is very symbolic to me. It is the first object that one will interact with before entering a new space.

Midnight is not in everyman's reach.

I tapped a forefinger to my temple and raised my glass of single-vineyard Foxen Pinot. "Between here and here lies the Rubicon of the imagination.

Weber-Fechner Law holds that the just-noticeable difference in any variable is proportional to the magnitude of that variable.

supuesto umbral de la conciencia. Ahí es donde radica la fascinación

People who have been initiated broke through in what felt like breaking down.

Pain is an interesting thing. You think you have reached your limit and you can't possibly feel more tortured. Then you discover there is still another level of agony. And another level after that.

After you reach the number impossible , there's no point in counting.

The moment she entered she felt wrapped in a fragile golden light like a radiant mist that seemed to settle around her. What was it about the mews? she often wondered. It seemed to transform the simplest things, like stone and wood and the very air one breathed, into something different. When she crossed the threshold, she felt as if she had entered another world.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter—all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

For many men that stumble at the thresholdAre well foretold that danger lurks within.

Nature in you stands on the very vergeOf her confine.

For metaphor, we may suggest, is not simply a matter of what appears on the printed page or in, for example, the work of visual art; it is rather the bodying-forth [stet] of sets of correspondences of which, in some sense, we have all, in specific interpretative communities, been aware in what we might define as a liminal way, hovering somewhere around the threshold of articulation.

Fontaine. Ro turned to Remzi, grabbed the box from her hand, and pulled out the silver band inside. She opened the device and clamped it around Vic's arm, then hauled him backward and out through the door. She half expected the singer to vanish as he passed over the threshold, but he didn't. Ro saw Quark's eyes widen as Vic Fontaine stepped for the first time onto the deck of Deep Space 9. viii

Without recognizing it, we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change. I believe that we are at the end of nature.