Quotes About Liminality

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

I realized that the last thing I wanted to do was go home. A weird feeling—like on the one hand I wanted to go back to that other world, but at the same time didn't care if my connections to it were cut forever. It wasn't a feeling of being free or anything. I just didn't want to go back. I wanted to float somewhere in between.

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

She didn't belong on this side. She couldn't stand the idea of going back to the Sanctuary. She was like the summer air that stretched between the grassy green ground and the star-studded galaxy above. She was neither here nor there…and she was invisible.

There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

They are between. Not what they used to be, and not what they have become. In those times, they are nothing. And I am invisible, and I am nothing too. That is the true demimonde, Lucien, and the secret is, it is not always desperate and dark. Sometimes it is just nothing. No burden of potential or regret. There are worse things than being nothing, my friend.

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

I am suspended between life and death in an unfamiliar way

At first, you must be willing to enter a state of liminality. In other words, you must be willing to enter a state in which you stand on the threshold and are no longer grasping the worldviews and sense of yourself that you held in the past, nor yet completely ready to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You stand on the threshold, the doorsill, neither in one world nor another. This can be a frightening place to be.

Robert Darvel, now certain that he had left the planet of his birth and that what he had taken to be a Canadian forest was instead a part of Mars, walked with great strides, as much to revive his sluggish limbs as to reach, as quickly as possible, some Martian settlement, the existence of which he was impatient to discover.

Only one step across that line, which reminds on the boundary that separates living from the dead, and then there's uncertainty, torture and death.

I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.

I savour this total oblivion into which I have fallen. I am between two towns. One knows nothing of me, the other knows me no longer.

I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.

From time to time,' Turner explained, most people seek to discard their customary clothing and status markers and 'don the liberating masks of a liminal masquerade.

Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens.