A Quote by Denis Johnson

We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.

Denis Johnson

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Fondly Hell Purgatory Sing

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Denis Johnson
German - Writer
July 1, 1949 - May 24, 2017

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

Thomas Aquinas

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

The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus on heaven or hell. Purgatory is for the expiation of sin, the fact that you are there, and not in hell, means you'll eventually work your way to heaven. The experience of this play, 'Small oak tree', and its psychological architecture, relies on its knowledge of that. Many black people believe that this life, within itself, is a way to work out whatever obligations we have, in order to get to a better place.

Harry Lennix

I just disagree so much with the way the Catholic Church says things like, 'If you're not a good person, you'll die and go to Hell; there's a purgatory there...' If I was talking with a Holy Ghost, it would scare the living Hell out of me.

Ronnie James Dio

I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...

Gerard Way

From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in the center you have the Earth, all the seven heavens and layers, and then you have the Mount of Purgatory and Hell right in the center, and here's Satan flapping his wings and he keeps making the lake of Cocytus ice so you can't get out. So, again, where Heaven and Hell are, who the hell knows that now?

Paul Laffoley

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

John Florio

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Federica Montseny

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

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

Dee Hock

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

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

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

Robert Breault

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.