Purgatory Quotes
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'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.
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More Purgatory Quotes
: 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 place in't.
john webster— DUCHESSANTONIO1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.2.
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
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
