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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
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. -- Carol Zaleski
We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell. -- Denis Johnson
I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory -- Gerard Way
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. -- Abraham Lincoln
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. -- John Florio
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You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory. -- Brigit of Kildare
Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations. -- Dee Hock
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. -- Federica Montseny
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life. -- Venerable Bede
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. -- Pico Iyer
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
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
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. -- Arnold Bennett
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
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
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
You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance. -- Gary Ackerman
Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories. -- Sándor Márai
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. -- Nicolas Chamfort
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
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
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. -- Stephen King
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
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
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way. -- Artemisia Gentileschi
In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next. -- Philip Neri
Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory. -- Sylvester Stallone
I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies. -- Tracie Bennett
The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory. -- Vivek Wadhwa
It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living. -- Dave Thomas
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. -- Henry Louis Gates
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
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
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
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters. -- Lincoln Child
Labour is the purgatory of the erring. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We must empty purgatory with our prayers. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory. -- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
History will be erased in the universal purgatory. -- Dejan Stojanovic
The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow. -- Monica Dickens
'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory. -- Sylvester Stallone
The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system -- Killer Mike
Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories. -- Sándor Márai
Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you. -- Elizabeth Montagu
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. -- Francis Quarles
When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. -- Robert Breault
Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get. -- Miguel Syjuco
Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem. -- Elizabeth Eulberg
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! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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
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. -- Katee Sackhoff
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
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 -- Lady Gaga
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

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