Limbo Quotes

• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

  Brooks Atkinson

  New Year, Memories, Holiday

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

  Bob Dylan

  Journey, Nowhere To Turn

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

  Keri Hulme

  Strong, Race, Endurance

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.28, LSU Press

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• It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

  Seth

  Business, Decision, Decision Making

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• Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Choices, Want, Bows

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.179, Harlequin

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• The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

  Rene Descartes

  Ideas, Mind, Analysis

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• It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.

  Italo Calvino

  Morning, Night, Light

  Italo Calvino (2012). “The Nonexistent Knight”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

  Bill Joy

  Wells, Good Place

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• Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Deliverance, Prison

  Journal Intime 3 December (1872)

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• I am the soul in limbo.

  Andre Breton

  Soul

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• What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Dark, What If

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• A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

  John Milton

  Paradise, Fool, Broads

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.137

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• Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

  William Boyd

  Sometimes, Stuck, Tolerable

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure where you know that you haven't done your best at one or the other: dying or living.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Dying, Done, Want

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• When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.

  Tim Finn

  Ocean, Healing, Passion

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• When you are not happy where you are, and you are not quite sure if you want to leave or how to leave, you are in the meantime.  Its a state of limbo.  You are hanging on, ready to let go, afraid to fall, not wanting to hurt yourself, afraid you will hurt someone else.  In the meantime, you pray the other person will let go first so that you will not feel guilty.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Hurt, Fall

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Littles, Facts

  Lectures and Biographical Sketches The Superlative

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• I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

  Cornelia Parker

  Beauty, Loss, Want

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• All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  Fred Allen (2009). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.240, Wildside Press LLC

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• Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like superman-exept with only the underwear. I wasn't sure what to say except: "Put some clothes on!" "These children are under my protection," Bes insisted. "I don't know you," I said, "I never met you before today." "Nonsense. You expressly asked for my attention." "I didn't ask for the Speedo Patrol!

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Clothes, Underwear

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• We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

  John McGahern

  Real, Mean, Australia

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• Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

  Theodore Levitt

  Ideas, Useless, Action

  Theodore Levitt (1974). “Marketing for business growth”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Airplane, Two, Interesting

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• Then might ye see
  Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost
  And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,
  Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls,
  The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft
  Fly to the rearward of the world far off
  Into a limbo large and broad, since called
  The paradise of fools.

  John Milton

  Sports, Wind, Rags

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 03”

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• The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. 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. The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not had had ever, really, been present at his life.

  James A. Baldwin

  Morning, Pain, Terrible Events

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