Purgatory Quotes

Purgatory Quote of the day

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

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.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

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.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system.

We must empty purgatory with our prayers.

You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.

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.

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.

We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

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.

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...

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.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

I think Gods wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. Its like a cosmic do-over.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

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.

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.

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.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many timesAnd my episodes of deathGave me the powerOver the greatest fearsThe fear of lifeThe fear of self

To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.

Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.

Open up your Mind Rockin' Minds to the Cold Hard Reality that is my Songs & Dreams.

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.

I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.