Quotes About Limbo

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

I am not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am nowhere. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.

It seemed that all around her there was a strange eerie stillness, the stillness of a silent world, a world filled with people who came and went into their separate lives. Some wold arrange to meet again, some would pass like ships in the night, some would leave memories that would last forever, others would pass into limbo.

No saber la hora lo angustió de nuevo. A veces lo olvidaba, pero la menor inquietud, duda, zozobra, hacía que la punzante ansiedad de no saber en qué momento del día o de la noche se hallaba le produjera hielo en el corazón, la sensación de haber sido expulsado del tiempo, de vivir en un limbo donde no existían el antes, el ahora ni el después

Into a limbo large and broad, since calledThe Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.

can't do it while caught in this half-life!

La imagen de la vida, en una comedia de marionetas; el destino figurado por el juego..., esto es el Limbo.

Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.

California's like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me.

Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.

read so much about the grieving process over the past month. Devoured articles on the Internet, ordered books. All of them were clear that there was no timeline for grief. They were specific about symptoms of grief—the sensations of choking, shortness of breath, feelings of emptiness, endless crying. But nothing warned her that when she wasn't experiencing those symptoms of anguish, all that was left was a sense of meaninglessness. A great, vast gray space of nothingness. Limbo.

The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy.

It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.

My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds.

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.

The message to Georgia—and any other post-Soviet country that might have wanted to follow its example—was, If you try to ally with NATO, you will lose lives and territory and will be assured NATO limbo in perpetuity.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I am in a limbo that needs to be patterned from within. People who have regular jobs can have no idea of just this problem of ordering a day that has no pattern imposed on it from without.

Todo eso era poco: la verdadera condena era no ser sumergido inmediatamente en las lagunas de sangre del séptimo círculo; era no sufrir los dardazos de los centauros cada vez que quisiera erguirse. La condena era ser joven y estar vivo, y no poder morir ni amar, en esas tierras de nadie.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

The road of 'God alone' struck me with unsettling fear. So I lingered in a kind of limbo. Unable to go back, unable to go on. Uncertain. Tentative. How strange that we tend to stand ankle-deep in the spiritual life even though the grounding depth of intimacy with God is the most nourishing experience of our lives and affirms our very being!

I wanted to know, and I didn't want to know. I was all hung up in limbo.