Gary Ackerman

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

American Politician

Mark Rylance

I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

English Actor

James Blake

We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.

American Athlete

Katee Sackhoff

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.

American Actress

Charles Spurgeon

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.

British Clergyman

John Gregory Dunne

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

American Novelist

Sylvester Stallone

Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

American Actor

Vivek Wadhwa

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory.

Indian Businessman

Abraham Lincoln

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

American President

David Berman

The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.

American Musician

Primarily used in a religious context related to Christian beliefs about the afterlife.

Religious Term

It's not heaven or hell but a temporary state where souls undergo purification.

Intermediate State

Considered a spiritual state rather than an actual place you can visit.

Not Physical Place

Can describe any tedious, prolonged situation evoking feelings of suffering or distress.

Metaphorical Pain

Often used to exaggerate a difficult situation, expressing a strong negative emotion.

Exaggeration

Its modern use is not connected to religion and focuses on discomfort or psychological pain.

Not Always Religious

 actually hand-wrote these things called indulgences, which were forgiveness’s on pieces of paper. They traveled all around Europe and sold by the hundreds or by the thousands. They got you out of purgatory faster. And when the printing press was invented what they found was they could print indulgences,

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 out of punishment so they can go to heaven and why should it be easier for the rich to avoid a long time in purgatory than it is for the poor he thinks it's way too much about money and too little about god when priests sell letters of indulgence with slogans such

Purgatory