Purgatory Quotes

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

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.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply 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 need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

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

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

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.

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.

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.