England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio
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
It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.
Dave Thomas
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett
We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.
John McGahern
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Frederica Montseny
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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