Purgatory Quotes
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Wife punctured this feeble artifice without effort, and carried him off incontinently to whatever of marital purgatory she had hoarded up for him.
Edmund Crispin -
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
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I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Henry Louis Gates -
Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.
Mike Schmidt -
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 -
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
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Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
Miguel Syjuco -
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley -
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