Agatha Christie

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

English Writer

John Banville

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

Irish Novelist

Helen Rowland

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

American Writer

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.

An anteroom serves as a transitional space before entering the main area.

Place of Transition

An anteroom can be a space where people prepare mentally or physically before an event.

Preparation Zone

Anterooms can offer a degree of privacy before entering a public or formal space.

Privacy Aspect

 And so I made a I said, "No building." There was a cave on the site; we tunnel into the hill, descend through the rock into an underground chamber. There's an anteroom with photographs of children who perished

Moshe Safdie: What makes...

 You, it seems, are the manifestation of several lifetimes of toil. Brown v. Board in flesh. Most days the classroom feels like an antechamber. You are deemed expert

"Ode to the Only Black...

 corridor in the antechamber everything was burning it was clear to us at this point that the whole palace must have been destroyed by fire at the end