Top 17 Purgatory Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Purgatory Quotes from famous people such as Phoebe Robinson, Henry Louis Gates, John Florio, John McGahern, Katee Sackhoff, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Normally, I'd believe that the saying 'There's no small

Normally, I’d believe that the saying ‘There’s no small parts, only small actors’ is a load of crock because, more often than not, actors relegated to the small-part category stay in ‘Who was that guy from that thing’ purgatory – however, ’90s sitcom ‘Friends’ proved that the saying is true.
Phoebe Robinson
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Henry Louis Gates
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio
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
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
Purgatory is hell, with hope.
Tyler Childers
Red carpets are awful. They’re like a kind of purgatory – you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for ‘The Great Gatsby,’ and I’d never seen anything like it.
Elizabeth Debicki
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
Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
John Gregory Dunne
It was the closest to purgatory that I’ve ever experienced while I’ve been living.
Dave Thomas
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
The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.
David Berman
And what’s nice about ‘Sunny’ is that it has this honesty with the viewers, which is, like, they’re here because they’re on a television show and they’re locked in this purgatory where they have to keep doing the same things with each other.
Megan Ganz
In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making significant changes in a whistleblower’s ‘working conditions’ as punishment for speaking out.
David Fahrenthold
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
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it’s the start of purgatory.
Vivek Wadhwa