Marina Abramovic

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.

Serbian Artist

Rebecca Solnit

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.

American Writer

Alberto Manguel

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.

Argentinian Writer

Steve Coogan

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.

British Comedian

Marjorie Liu

As a writer - and a romance novelist, no less - I've always found it a bit odd when characters in comic books remain in relationship limbo for years at a time.

American Author

Nick Harkaway

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.

English Novelist

Bob Dylan

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

American Musician

Issey Miyake

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

Japanese Designer

Tre Cool

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.

Bill Joy

American Businessman

Use 'limbo' to describe a time when you're awaiting a decision or outcome.

Waiting Period

'Limbo' often conveys a temporary state of confusion or indecision about future actions.

Temporary Confusion

Use 'limbo' when someone or something is unable to move forward or progress.

Feeling Stuck

The limbo dance is a fun, social activity often featured at parties and celebrations.

Party Dance

Limbo is used as a physical challenge to test flexibility and balance.

Flexibility Test

The limbo dance has Caribbean roots and involves distinct rhythmic music.

Cultural Origin

In historical Christianity, limbo is a speculative place for souls not condemned or saved.

Theological Concept

The religious meaning of 'limbo' is less commonly referenced in everyday English today.

Less Common Usage

 and most people are driven to resolve this uncomfortable state of limbo. You might start to blame the referee, complain that the other team started it, or even convince yourself there was no foul in the first place. In a case like this, people are often more motivated to maintain a positive relationship

Do politics make us...

 we quickly saw what it looks like when there are more people who need help than there are resources to help them. Social services doesn't scale quickly, and even if communities do their best to help more people with limited resources, newcomers end up spending more time waiting in limbo,

What refugees need to...

 It's getting colder every night, and having all this wood is a killer thing to do. I mean, not only is it, like-- it's keeping us warm in here, for one thing, for sure. But just having something to do, just trapped in this sort of weird limbo that we're in waiting,

An Alaskan Storm -...

 to do something like this, so that we can facilitate whether someone, an individual, is able to stay in the United States or they're going to have to be returned back to their home country, rather than being in this limbo for five years.

A wall won't solve...

 of health education environment and more if he wins he's delighted and he prepares hard boosting the quality of the meeting for both of them if he loses well at least he knows where he stands and he's avoided no reply limbo so could

In the market for...

 In theory, refugees have a right to a pathway to integration, or return to the country they've come from. But in practice, they get stuck in almost indefinite limbo. In theory, refugees are a shared global responsibility.

Our refugee system is...

 It is really difficult to live a life with an uncertain fate, in limbo. The issue of asylum seekers in Australia has been so extremely politicized that it has lost its human face.

Barat Ali Batoor: My...

 With wars going on and on, the average time a refugee will spend in exile is 17 years. Hany was into his second year in limbo when I went to visit him recently,

Let’s Help Refugees...

 Millions of refugees are living in exile, in limbo. They're living in countries from a war that has been raging for four years.