The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Ruler’s purgatory. It’s the special club you love to hate.” — Scarlett Dawn Copy Share Image
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“His crime had been death itself, and he had been sentenced with life.” — Brian Robert Smith Copy Share Image
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am… — Mary Borden Copy Share Image
“Is that why you do good deeds, Richie? To shorten your time in Purgatory?' 'Oh, honey,' he said, brushing lint from an… — Michael Nava Copy Share Image
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I think Gods wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“Am I dead? Because if I were going to be stuck in purgatory I’d rather be with someone hot and funny like… — Toni Anderson Copy Share Image
The way I understood purgatory - and maybe you've got a different version - but in Chicago in the '70s, the idea… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
Me writing the book and the subsequent interactions that we had were actually the cap on that experience. We were still in… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living. — Dave Thomas Copy Share Image
The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow. — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you. — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“GLORIA: Between Heaven and Hell—there is another place. This place: Hope. Hope—is located right over here in downtown Purgatory.” — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
“I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.” — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
“The rare beauty of distant places made home seem as if we had been thrown out of paradise and sent to purgatory… — Scott Haas Copy Share Image
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The day you die is the day you wake up. The day you stop dreaming. The day this nightmare is over. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
