Top 99 Quotes About Limbo
#1. The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.
Rene Descartes
#2. A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.
Alberto Manguel
#3. Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#4. 'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
Daddy Yankee
#5. Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.
Steven Wright
#6. 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
#7. Limbo is the state where there are only questions. That was as far as I'd gotten.
David Levithan
#8. I just set the bar, niggas fall under it like a limbo
Drake
#9. 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
#10. And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.
Peter Sotos
#11. Instantaneous interpretation hails from the Limbo that produced unsensed sensibilia, unconscious inference, incorrigible statements, negative facts and Objektive. These are ideas which philosophers force on the world to preserve some pet epistemological or metaphysical theory.
Norwood Russell Hanson
#12. One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.
Jonathan Rottenberg
#13. What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
Simon Hoggart
#14. I am leaning back and running with it and staring at the stars and I'm eleven, I'm sixteen, I'm eighteen, I'm a newborn I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#15. Here the clouds constantly adjusted like obedient phantoms, so that shadows never lengthened or shortened. At any point in space, Limbo never became any darker or lighter than the moment before.
L. E. Henderson
#16. I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
Peter Heller
#17. All she'd had to do was remember about Limbo: neither Heaven nor Hell, Limbo was the timeless, colorless eternity spent in between.
Ruthie Knox
#18. There's no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, ya ken, 'cause the door was verra low.
Terry Pratchett
#20. Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.
Kurt Cobain
#21. Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world. Gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock.
Chubby Checker
#22. People say when something stops growing, it dies; I don't think it's the same with love. Even when love stops growing because there's nothing to nurtures it, it doesn't die; it just stays somewhere in a limbo.
Tayo Emmanuel
#23. Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion.
Ryan Lilly
#25. Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.
Suzanne Collins
#26. Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.
William Boyd
#27. I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.
Steve Coogan
#28. Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.
Evelyn Waugh
#29. He in the limbo of the Christless righteous, I in a terrestrial hell.
Cormac McCarthy
#30. And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts. I might always feel some form of this, a depression that did not lift but grew compact and familiar, a space occupied like the sad limbo of hotel rooms.
Emma Cline
#31. Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?
Haruki Murakami
#33. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.
Chubby Checker
#34. I worry these days that Latinos in California speak neither Spanish nor English very well. They are in a kind of linguistic limbo between the two. They don't really have a language, and are, in some deep sense, homeless.
Richard Rodriguez
#35. Before capitalism will go to hell, then, it will for the foreseeable future hang in limbo, dead or about to die from an overdose of itself but still very much around, as nobody will have the power to move its decaying body out of the way.
Wolfgang Streeck
#36. The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.
Leigh Hershkovich
#37. Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks
admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.
Henry Miller
#38. Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.
Irvine Welsh
#39. It's better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.
Seth
#40. Perhaps Eurydice wants to remain marginal, a shade insubstantial ... the mute waste in a limbo without light and without depth are a style of anima fascinations in which the absence of significance is the significance.
James Hillman
#41. She sat in a secluded room, she was mad, but she could not accept it; so she was neither sane nor insane. She could not be either until she knew herself, so in limbo she must die. She kept stuffing toilet roll into her mouth. They found her choked to death!
Stephen Richards
#42. We are all born like Catholics ... in limbo, without religion.
Yann Martel
#43. The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.
Randall Jarrell
#44. Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.
Theodore Levitt
#45. We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.
Vito Fossella
#46. This is vexing: I feel in a kind of limbo - an author but not truly an author, true authorship being conferred by having a book physically published - a thing you can hold in your hand, purchase in a bookshop.
William Boyd
#47. A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.
Ben Fountain
#48. I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
Daddy Yankee
#49. THERE WERE THOSE who compared Bedlam to hell - a writhing purgatory of torture and insanity. But Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne, knew what Bedlam really was. It was limbo. A place of interminable waiting.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#50. Curiosity was a mild irritant, but nothing in the face of fear like this. By doing nothing, I determined that nothing would change, and it didn't. People moan about being in limbo, but actually, I found limbo the safest place to be.
Anna Maxted
#51. These were "fossil behaviors," Darwinian vestiges of earlier times brought out of physiological limbo by the stimulation of primitive brain-stem systems, damaged and sensitized by the encephalitis in the first place, and now "awakened" by L-dopa.1 I
Oliver Sacks
#52. But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one morning but wouldn't attempt again until the next made us all feel we were living in a day that didn't count, a day between parentheses.
Margaret Lazarus Dean
#53. The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.
Meg Rosoff
#54. We are all born like Catholics, aren't we - in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
Yann Martel
#55. We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.
Nick Harkaway
#56. ...the nation as a whole has no contact with reality. That is only one of the reasons why I have always been forced to exist on the fringes of its society, consigned to the Limbo reserved for those who do know reality when they see it.
John Kennedy Toole
#57. Trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.
Ian Rankin
#58. 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
#59. They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn't know how to let either of them in.
Amina Gautier
#60. In limbo is an indecisive manhalf dead half alive
Half on earth half in sky, neither can he run nor fly
Jagdish Bali
#61. Somewhere in Limbo, all the old devices and appliances and costumes are lined up, waiting their turn for reentry.
Margaret Atwood
#62. And I myself was wrung with emotion
it was heartbreaking, it was absurd, it was deeply perplexing, to think of his life lost in limbo, dissolving.
Oliver Sacks
#63. 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
#64. [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#65. 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
#67. There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.
Richard Schickel
#69. They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo - their kind. To limbo.
Philip Wylie
#70. It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.
Tre Cool
#71. I never want to be suspended in the limbo of non-decision again. It's like torturing yourself on purpose.
Siobhan Vivian
#72. Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination.
Kimberly Sabatini
#73. Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
Irving Layton
#74. 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
#76. Limbo. It's not Heaven, and it's not Hell. It's the in-between.' (Edward speaking about reading the Divine Comedy.
Luke: 'This was, I realised, my new address.
Jodi Picoult
#77. We're not exactly together and were not, not together. We're in together-limbo. We're test-driving together to see if we want to buy it.
Kristen Ashley
#78. Being alive is far betting than being in Limbo.
Mike Townsend
#79. As the voice of their priests chanting, 'In Racism we Trust' and their applause gets louder, I find myself in a limbo of conscience, out of my depth, just an exhausted heretic, in a purgatory, yet denying submission.
Asaad Almohammad
#80. Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
Andrew Lang
#81. But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.
Irvine Welsh
#82. It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.
Cormac McCarthy
#83. Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. Which seemed to hover in a limbo between creation and decay ...
Thomas Mann
#85. I believe in art, and more fundamentally the freedom to express one's self creatively. People don't know yet what they'll ultimately believe in or how they'll organize their lives. They're kind of in limbo.
K.M. Soehnlein
#86. Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
Bill Joy
#87. 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
#88. A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
John Milton
#89. Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
Bob Dylan
#90. 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
#91. I'd rather go my whole life in limbo than have him tell me that he's fallen in love with a woman who isn't me.
Elle Kennedy
#92. 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
#93. And please watch over the babies trapped in limbo. In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Sierra Simone
#94. Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world's in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#95. The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. There was nothing like the cold, heavy steel of a gun, the soft moan of an appreciative woman or the sharp burn of a good single malt to make a man grateful to be alive. Tonight, with his gun gone and his sex life a wasteland, Dash had to settle for whiskey.
Amy Andrews
#97. The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died
Donato DiCristino
#98. Panky thinking: We had nuclear holocaust on our lips, Big Brother on our minds, 1984 was just around the corner and we were shit scared about the future - George Orwell and Margaret Thatcher had a lot to answer for.
Peter L Masters
#99. A woman could do a lot of crazy things for a pair of fine-looking dimples.
Amy Andrews
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