Top 100 Quotes About Purge
#1. With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
Kate Millett
#2. I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.
Bob Dylan
#3. The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!
Pearl S. Buck
#4. Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
William Cowper
#5. Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
John Milton
#6. Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.
Danny Garcia
#7. He wanted to lie with Marc and touch him everywhere, give him pleasure and purge his bad memories from him. He wanted to consume him and be consumed by him.
Darien Cox
#8. Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
Tracey Gold
#9. How sweet it is to let God purge our souls of ego and bitterness, and to have a little taste of heaven here on earth.
Marilyn Nelson
#10. The purge is made to release the aggression, anger, rage everything just in on place.
Deyth Banger
#11. Same spirit which gave it forth, - is the fundamental law of criticism. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. And of that second kingdom will I sing Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself, And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy. -Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto I.004-006.
Sylvain Reynard
#13. I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
Richard Dawkins
#14. Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
James Buchan
#15. Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
Hosea Ballou
#16. North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick
#17. I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
E. M. Forster
#18. The intellectual is called on the carpet ... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.
Herbert Marcuse
#19. I decided to go swimming. I don't know how to explain this, but I wanted to purge my body of something by exercising it to the limit. Purge it - of what? I spent some time wondering about that. Purge it of what?
I didn't know.
Haruki Murakami
#20. Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.
Daphne Du Maurier
#21. Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep ... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home ... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.
Tucker Carlson
#22. Look what we, the humans, the humanity!???
What we are doing in "The Purge", it's shown.
Deyth Banger
#23. [Our physical illnesses] serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.
John Calvin
#24. No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain.
San Juan De La Cruz
#25. When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere ... the world will purge itself. - Bertrand Zobrist
Dan Brown
#26. When the spirit passed through him he groaned, throwing body and soul into his weekly purge. The "Amen enema", as I call it. My palindrome for the Reverend.
Barbara Kingsolver
#27. How many times had I wanted to scream the same way? To purge myself and release the pain in my soul. But somehow, I never had. Maybe those who felt free to do so were only those who didn't posses the guilt of having put the pain there in the first place.
Charles Martin
#28. Probably it's true, The Purge works for the government, who knows?
Deyth Banger
#29. Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
Robert Jordan
#30. The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.
Christian Wiman
#31. We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant country where this selfishness will disappear.
Albert Camus
#32. God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.
Sylvia Plath
#33. The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.
John Lawson
#34. Would he purge his soul from vileness
And attain to light and worth,
He must turn and cling for ever,
To his ancient Mother Earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#35. I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#36. Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
Michel De Montaigne
#37. I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#38. Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.
Arnold Bennett
#39. I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
Luke Evans
#40. The only way to have room enough in our hearts to truly love others is to purge all hatred, and replace it with love.
Wes Fesler
#41. The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.
Morihei Ueshiba
#42. When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
Andy Hargreaves
#43. Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.
Jill Scott
#44. The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.
John Arbuthnot
#45. By absorbing so many books he was trying to purge his own failure as a writer. It wasn't working, but he feared what would happen if he stopped.
Chad Harbach
#46. I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.
Steven Spielberg
#47. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. And yes, I'll admit, I am jealous. I'm jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can't.
Colleen Houck
#49. Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything ... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
Tina Turner
#50. Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,
The art of syren choirs;
Hush the seductive voice that floats
Across the trembling wires.
Music's ethereal power was given
Not to dissolve our clay,
But draw Promethean beams from heaven
To purge the dross away.
John Henry Newman
#51. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
Francis Bacon
#53. If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
James E. Faust
#54. Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of 'good purge' is extremely naive.
Chuck Todd
#55. Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.
Holly Lynn Payne
#56. The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of Secrets, unleash the horror within, and use it to purge the school of all who were unworthy to study magic." There
J.K. Rowling
#57. I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.
Paula Poundstone
#58. Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.
Christopher Paolini
#60. Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
Kristin Armstrong
#61. The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.
Mark Twain
#62. And let God purge this wicked sadness away with a flood, and let the waters recede to pools and ponds and ditches, and let every one of them mirror heaven. Still, they taste a bit of blood and hair.
Marilynne Robinson
#63. To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
William Temple
#65. Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.
Alexander MacLaren
#66. In Valencia, when you catch snails for your paella, you feed them rosemary for a few days, both to purge them and to give them flavor.
Jeffrey Steingarten
#67. I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.
Jason Blum
#68. As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment.
Anne Rice
#69. I wanted to curse the maker for not completing the female cast with a delete slash purge button when it came to men.
Nicole Williams
#70. The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.
Michel De Montaigne
#71. I won't have them looking at what's mine. On second thought. Throw out all your underwear. I'll lead the purge on the sewers myself so you can stroll around with your girl parts unencumbered for my enjoyment.
Eve Langlais
#72. From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#73. It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
Bryan Cranston
#74. I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
Kurt Sutter
#75. Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.
Jill Scott
#76. The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Kathryn Bigelow
#77. It is a deformity in some 'radicals' to imagine that, once they have found the lowest or meanest motive for an action or for a person, they have correctly identified the authentic or 'real' one. Many a purge or show trial has got merrily under way in this manner.
Christopher Hitchens
#78. Perhaps time is an inconsistent healer, but God can purge even the most painful memories.
Melanie Dickerson
#79. Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
Marcus Aurelius
#80. Sometimes we're all trying to purge something. And what we're trying to purge resists our purging.
Leslie Jamison
#81. O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
Arthur Rimbaud
#82. He was in that broken mood for which the Middle Ages offered the cloister as a remedy; he felt the urgent need of sacrifice and abnegation to purge him.
John Meade Falkner
#83. Why was it that a person could forget a thousand moments over a lifetime but never purge the one memory she truly wanted to forget?
Melissa Tagg
#84. Beatrice did something to him, reduced him to his basic animal self, but he needed to purge his out of control feelings, not amplify them.
Audra North
#85. Day and night,
Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
John Milton
#86. Bring Solomon Gorge to God that he might purge the sin from this evil land!
Lucian Bane
#87. We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
John Calvin
#89. I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. That's the first thing. You want to do it.
Vin Diesel
#90. (The Purge),... A lot of movies say that the silence is a deadly weapon yeah.... it's true!
You, never know from where somebody is going to came out and how is going to came out.
Deyth Banger
#91. All who receive God's guidance and seek to live by it must expect experiences of this kind, to instruct, test, correct, purge, deepen, and strengthen them. For it is by these means that God trains, matures, and toughens his children, increases their faith, and makes them grow in Christ.
J.I. Packer
#92. After All The.Purge.Election.Year.2016 wasn't a big deal, it could be better, I have watched and better movies.
Deyth Banger
#93. I think, especially with my parents, I wanted to remember who they were. I wanted to remember all of it. I didn't want to purge myself of it. I wanted to remember it.
Roz Chast
#94. I've often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.
Ray Bradbury
#95. The queer and strange, the unrestrained, the grotesque is not only interesting: it is valuable. It is not always necessary to purge it out altogether in order to attain to the Sublime.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#96. AMERICANISM, n. 1) The desire to purge America of all those qualities which make it a more or less tolerable place in which to live; 2) The ability to simultaneously kiss ass, follow your boss's orders, swallow a pay cut, piss in a bottle, cower in fear of job loss, and brag about your freedom.
Ambrose Bierce
#97. I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.
Jan Hus
#98. Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
Richard Wright
#99. Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.
Tim Johnson
#100. They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow
Lauren Beukes
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