Quotes about Purgatory

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Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand. — L.T. Hill, Dollhead Corporation
How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is up — Kathryn Hurn, HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many timesAnd my episodes of deathGave me the powerOver the greatest fearsThe fear of lifeT — Dauglas Dauglas
History will be erased in the universal purgatory. — Dejan Stojanovic
To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory. — Roy Richardson
Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not. — François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
…Do you think there’s somewhere else, some other place to go after this one?” Mandy blurted out.“You mean when you die, — Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Atheism rises above creeds and puts Humanity upon one plane.There can be no 'chosen people' in the Atheist philosophy.Th — Joseph Lewis, Atheism And Other Addresses
Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are — N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
You are afraid to suffer, but it were better to thank God for it, since the more you undergo down here, the less you wil — Saint Lydwine of Schiedam
In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brigand beside him, reco — N.T. Wright, For All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed
But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Open up your Mind Rockin' Minds to the Cold Hard Reality that is my Songs & Dreams. — Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The, Purgatory's Full: A Song, a Dream or a Cold Hard Reality in Thirty-Six Parts
I believe - I daily find it proved - that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a principle or — Charlotte Brontë
The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to develop the conditi — Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is — Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell. — John Connolly, The Infernals
In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil — Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes
I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment. — Megan Miranda, Hysteria
On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that t — Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere