Purgatory Quotes
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: What do you think of marriage? : I take't, as those that deny purgatory, It locally contains
or heaven, or hell; There's no third
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More Purgatory Quotes
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— Last of the Barons (1843), Book v, Chapter i.
Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.
d. h. lawrence— Sons and Lovers - Edited out of the 1913 edition, restored in 1992
'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— George Eliot, Stradivarius, line 85.
There are three gates to Gehinam (purgatory) one of them is in Jerusalem.
— Talmud, Eruvin 19a
England is a prison for men, a paradise for women, a purgatory for servants, a hell for horses.
thomas fuller— Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Referred to as a proverb.
The Narakas are the realms of suffering that equate to the Christian hell or, more accurately, to purgatory . If a person is born into one of these realms as a result of bad karma , this is not a permanent punishment - he or she may well be reborn into one of the higher worlds in the next life . Watched over by Yama , judge of the world, the Narakas are not only physical places but also states of consciousness – and symbols of the suffering that can take place during life, as well as after death .
— Jane Alexander, in The Body, Mind, Spirit Miscellany: The Ultimate Collection of Fascinations, Facts, Truths, and Insights, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2009, p.150
