We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.
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 in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.
I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory
We must empty purgatory with our prayers.
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.
Labour is the purgatory of the erring.
Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.
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.
The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.
Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.
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.
I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.
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.
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous existence. For example, infants who die from SIDs were actually great people when they were alive for real, so they get to go to heaven after a mere five weeks in purgatory. Meanwhile anyone Willard Scott ever congratulated for turning one hundred two was obviously a terrible individual who had many many previous sins to pay for and had to spend a century in his or her own unknown purgatory even though the person seemed perfectly wholesome in this particular world.
History will be erased in the universal purgatory.
