“Once a picture was taken, the experience was purged of its power to haunt.” — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. — Tatum O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“Alexei Ivanovich Pushkov, the chief of the Magnitogorsk NKVD during 1937, was himself purged in 1939 for his excessive ardor in purging… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“...and next thing you know, six of my best apprentices get purged for minor paperwork discrepancies and perhaps an unreported cock or… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“I left you clean. Purged of all your ghosts. I am the one who has been haunted all my life. Haunted by… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Society has completely purged God from the building, from the equation and because of it we're headed toward a rabbit hole that's… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
“Within a few years these "jokes" as we comedians call them, will have been entirely purged from my work in favour, exclusively,… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be purged without a body—no crying, no exertion, no pills to take away the pain or calm me down. Nothing.… — Courtney King Walker Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Hoover, who believed that his men should conquer their deficiencies the way he had conquered his childhood stutter, purged anyone who failed… — David Grann Copy Share Image
