Purgatorial Quotes

#1. Wolf Blitzer had once again relieved the horrible tension of his purgatorial beard - neither a beard nor not a beard - with yet another new pair of glasses.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. I don't think of marriage as the drudge work that a lot of sitcoms and movies might have shown it to be, I think it's more deadly murderous rage, unadulterated passion, soul-crushing purgatorial dread ... It's more interesting.

Rob Delaney

#3. Oblivion is purgatorial and grey. He is passably conscious, not asleep but not quite awake either, as if disconnected from everything, unable to move or think or receive input, able to exist.

Patrick Ness

#4. As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

Jerry Saltz

#5. He also had his proof that bureaucracy made small problems into big problems. India convinced Dad that Britain, which he called socialist England, had delayed the Allied victory in World War II by an entire year.

Claire Conner

#6. It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#7. Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.

Neal Stephenson

#8. The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend

Paulo Coelho

#9. So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

James Howe

#10. Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

Fisher Stevens

#11. You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

Stephen Rea