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Oh, torture. Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade? — Margaret Atwood

If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports. — Neil Gaiman

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air. — Shawn Amos

Purgatory, he thought, was just a synonym for 'tomorrow'. — Jodi Picoult

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

- What shall I do, in a Purgatory?... where they all speak spanish? I've never been in any kind of Purgatory before, and no one(...) — William Gaddis

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get. — Miguel Syjuco

What could be worse than Hell ?" he said
"Purgatory." I said. — Kurt Vonnegut

This wasn't life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory. — Daniel Wallace

Welcome to Ruler's purgatory. It's the special club you love to hate. — Scarlett Dawn

Please. Don't use the Lord's name, unless you're in prayer. It's a hundred years in purgatory. — Dorothea Benton Frank

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

Marriage is neither heaven or hell, it is merely purgatory. — Abraham Lincoln

This is a half-life, a split purgatory where her body and mind coexist but occupy separate realities. — Bill Clegg

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. — Stephen King

What is this 'baronet'?" the prince asked.
"Endlessly in between," Harry replied with a sigh. "A bit like purgatory, really. — Julia Quinn

I need you more, Anastasia. These last few days have been purgatory. All my instinct tell me to let you go, tell me I don't deserve you. — E.L. James

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you. — Elizabeth Montagu

I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment. — Megan Miranda

The rare beauty of distant places made home seem as if we had been thrown out of paradise and sent to purgatory or worse. — Scott Haas

Labour is the purgatory of the erring. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. — Nicolas Chamfort

I want to live again ... with you. You've changed my world. I'm altered, no longer stuck in purgatory. — K.I. Lynn

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. — Robert Breault

We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell. — Denis Johnson

Purgatory was a bit damp," said Bengt, "but heaven is more or less as I'd imagined it. — Thor Heyerdahl

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. — Jean-Luc Godard

I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory — Gerard Way

We must empty purgatory with our prayers
St Padre Pio — Charlie Gillen

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere."
"Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell. — John Connolly

I'm in emotional purgatory, the up and the down, the right and the wrong. I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying not to ... touch him — Tarryn Fisher

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies. — Tracie Bennett

Don't fall in love with me. I hold within me a hundred prayers. My soul sings the lament of the damned. I am my own purgatory. I design my own hell. — Nessie Q.

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world. — Joseph Campbell

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If Hell is other people ... then Purgatory is airports. — Neil Gaiman

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

So how does it feel? is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production purgatory to movieplex. — David Mitchell

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem. — Elizabeth Eulberg

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less. — George Eliot

Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story — Chuck Palahniuk

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations. — Dee Hock

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow. — Monica Dickens

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories. — Sandor Marai

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Open up your Mind Rockin' Minds to the Cold Hard Reality that is my Songs & Dreams. — Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. — Abraham Lincoln

What a fool. In purgatory there is really nothing else to be. I — Peter Heller

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. — Charles Spurgeon

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. — Federica Montseny

It was penance, my own slow dance in purgatory. — Amy Harmon

To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory. — Roy Richardson

She is why purgatory was invented. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

His crime had been death itself, and he had been sentenced with life. — Brian Robert Smith

My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory — Dorothea Benton Frank

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski

You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory. — Brigit Of Kildare

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper. — Jules Renard

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. — Joseph O'Connor

Some people say Earth is the bottom level of Purgatory.' She pointed toward the floor and frowned.
'I call it the top floor of Hell. — Tara West

Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. — Francis Quarles

For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments. — Joss Sheldon

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system — Killer Mike

History will be erased in the universal purgatory. — Dejan Stojanovic

If you think your desires are selfish or cruel, hate yourself. If you think the world unjust, then hate your god. — Katherine Pine

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life. — Venerable Bede

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer

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

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory. — Vivek Wadhwa

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over. — Katee Sackhoff

A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse,
and hell to the soul. — Elizabeth Grymeston