Top 100 Quotes About Purgatory
#1. I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.
Mary Borden
#2. Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.
Miguel Syjuco
#3. They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.
Laini Taylor
#4. This wasn't life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory.
Daniel Wallace
#5. I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.
Megan Miranda
#6. Purgatory was a bit damp," said Bengt, "but heaven is more or less as I'd imagined it.
Thor Heyerdahl
#7. What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#8. The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system
Killer Mike
#9. Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
Joseph O'Connor
#10. Aye, well," Murray replied, "but think. Say a man is a coward and hasna died well. Purgatory gives him a chance to prove his courage after all, no? And once he is proved a proper man, then the bridge is open to him, and he can pass through the clouds of terrible things unhindered to paradise.
Diana Gabaldon
#11. Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
Venerable Bede
#12. Don't fall in love with me. I hold within me a hundred prayers. My soul sings the lament of the damned. I am my own purgatory. I design my own hell.
Nessie Q.
#13. Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always the last place you left, and never the place you're in.
Scaachi Koul
#14. If Hell is other people ... then Purgatory is airports.
Neil Gaiman
#16. A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.
Carol Zaleski
#17. We must empty purgatory with our prayers
St Padre Pio
Charlie Gillen
#18. One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
Pico Iyer
#19. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.
Tom Brown Jr.
#20. The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#21. What could be worse than Hell ?" he said
"Purgatory." I said.
Kurt Vonnegut
#23. It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.
Dave Thomas
#24. 'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.
Sylvester Stallone
#25. I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices ( ... ), the object of a thousand pitying glances and knitted brows.
Ransom Riggs
#26. I had lost all perspective; I was wandering in a desperate purgatory (with a gray man in a gray boat in a gray river: an apathetic Charon dawdling upon a passionless phlegmatic River Styx ... and a petulant Christ child bawling on the train ... ).
Sylvia Plath
#27. I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.
Tracie Bennett
#28. My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory
Dorothea Benton Frank
#29. Welcome to Ruler's purgatory. It's the special club you love to hate.
Scarlett Dawn
#30. 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
#31. What is there left for me after my purgatory of solitude? ... I welcome death as a version of life in which I will not be myself. There is a fallacy here which I ought to see but will not. For when I wake on the ocean floor it will be the same old voice that drones out of me ...
J.M. Coetzee
#32. Marriage is neither heaven or hell, it is merely purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
#33. If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.
Joseph J. Romm
#34. I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
Jean-Luc Godard
#35. To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.
Roy Richardson
#36. I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.
Shawn Amos
#37. Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#38. We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
James Blake
#39. So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Henry Louis Gates
#40. Is that why you do good deeds, Richie? To shorten your time in Purgatory?' 'Oh, honey,' he said, brushing lint from an orange sleeve. 'I'm going to hell. That's where the action is.
Michael Nava
#41. For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments.
Joss Sheldon
#42. We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Federica Montseny
#43. Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
George Eliot
#44. He'd never seen a more miserable gown. The color hovered in some purgatory between raincloud and ditchwater and it looked as if the pieces of it were cut to a pattern of indifference, then stitched with resentment.
Jayne Fresina
#45. I want to live again ... with you. You've changed my world. I'm altered, no longer stuck in purgatory.
K.I. Lynn
#46. Not being sure of things, he knew, was a charmless corner of purgatory reserved for writers who were driving fast with no idea at all where they were going.
Stephen King
#47. I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around
purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.
Meg Cabot
#48. In hindsight, I know that high school is a festering pit of boredom and hormones, not to be taken as seriously as it seemed while I was there. It is earthly purgatory before you enter the better parts of your life: you've got one foot in heaven and the other in hell.
Alida Nugent
#49. 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
#50. Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.
Sandor Marai
#52. Yet, til now, her discipline had less to do with her strict Catholic upbringing than the fact that she hadn't met anybody who had aroused her to the point where she felt it was worth risking purgatory.
Cynthia Freeman
#53. Well, this place was not purgatory, Nirvana, or any sort of rebirth, and it occurred to Nick that regardless of what people believed, the universe had its own ideas.
Neal Shusterman
#54. The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory ... The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
Thomas Aquinas
#55. 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
#56. I shall tell you a truth ... your lips taste of sweet ripened berries. I should be so forward as to take them in degust. And if it cannot be so, then I shall kneel until that day in purgatory.
Nely Cab
#57. Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.
Dee Hock
#58. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.
Francis Quarles
#60. God has protected his anointed. And the wrath of Purgatory is certainly coming for those who run and are in need of its cleansing fire. You can run, but you can't hide. ~Father Abraham
Lucian Bane
#61. The rare beauty of distant places made home seem as if we had been thrown out of paradise and sent to purgatory or worse.
Scott Haas
#62. Tori glanced at the clock and bit back a curse. Hannah didn't need to learn any more bad words from her own mother. That's what public school was for.
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Eliza Gayle
#63. God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel? Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory? And how do you tell the difference?
Margaret Atwood
#64. This is a half-life, a split purgatory where her body and mind coexist but occupy separate realities.
Bill Clegg
#65. What is this 'baronet'?" the prince asked.
"Endlessly in between," Harry replied with a sigh. "A bit like purgatory, really.
Julia Quinn
#66. For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground ... forced me to live in purgatory ... laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.
Dan Brown
#67. It was penance, my own slow dance in purgatory.
Amy Harmon
#68. Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten - well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed
David Levithan
#69. He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories.
W.B.Yeats
#71. - What shall I do, in a Purgatory?... where they all speak spanish? I've never been in any kind of Purgatory before, and no one(...)
William Gaddis
#72. If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. I'm in emotional purgatory, the up and the down, the right and the wrong. I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying not to ... touch him
Tarryn Fisher
#74. The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy.
Jonathan Tropper
#75. Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.
Elizabeth Montagu
#76. What a fool. In purgatory there is really nothing else to be. I
Peter Heller
#77. Oh, torture. Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?
Margaret Atwood
#78. The archive of supposed photocopies (I.E. memory) actually offers up strange creatures; the green paradise of childhood loves that Baudelaire recalled is for many a future in reverse, an obverse of hope in the face of the gray purgatory of adult loves.
Julio Cortazar
#79. Ah yes, the dreaded one-way system ... He and Nancy had laughed later, imagining Dante redesigning Purgatory into a one-way system offering occasional glimpses of St. Peter and the pearly gates over two separate sets of dividing concrete barriers.
Helen Simonson
#80. Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being.
R.W. Southern
#81. I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
Katee Sackhoff
#82. Purgatory, he thought, was just a synonym for 'tomorrow'.
Jodi Picoult
#83. I need you more, Anastasia. These last few days have been purgatory. All my instinct tell me to let you go, tell me I don't deserve you.
E.L. James
#84. Please. Don't use the Lord's name, unless you're in prayer. It's a hundred years in purgatory.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#85. Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.
Christopher Columbus
#86. In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help the Saudis modernize.
John Perkins
#87. We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
Jules Renard
#88. Nay, are there not moods which shall find no expression unless there be men who dare to mix heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland together, or even to set the heads of beasts to the bodies of men, or to thrust the souls of men into the heart of rocks?
W.B.Yeats
#89. If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.
Neil Gaiman
#90. A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse,
and hell to the soul.
Elizabeth Grymeston
#91. The soul that is unable to forgive is sentenced to an endless purgatory where time stands still and it is forced to relive its pain over and over onto eternity.
Max Patrick
#92. The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
Joseph Campbell
#93. Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.
Patrick Rothfuss
#94. So how does it feel? is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production purgatory to movieplex.
David Mitchell
#95. We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere."
"Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.
John Connolly
#96. The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.
Monica Dickens
#97. You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.
Brigit Of Kildare
#98. Listen: it's got to be all honeymoon, always.
Either heaven, or hell:
no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between
for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance
or shame or repentance overtakes us.
William Faulkner
#99. When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.
Robert Breault
#100. The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Nicolas Chamfort
