Quotes of Perdition - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living. ”

- Dave Thomas

“ I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is? ”

- Dizzy Dean

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

- John Florio

“ England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours. ”

- George Santayana

“ Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ 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

“ Happy is the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. ”

- Virgil

“ Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell. ”

- Bettina Von Hutton

“ Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! ”

- Alexander Blok

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

- Robert Brault

“ Hell no, we won't go! ”

- Unknown

“ We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory. ”

- James Joyce

“ If you're going through hell, keep going. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. ”

- Davy Crockett

“ I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. ”

- Arthur Rimbaud

“ Hell is paved with good Samaritans. ”

- William M. Holden

“ Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ”

- Frank Borman

“ Perdition shall be the lot of man, except for those who have faith and do good works and exhort each other to justice and fortitude. ”

- The Koran

“ Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Hell is out of fashion — institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of Twentieth Century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven… ”

- J. G. Ballard

“ The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. ”

- Carl Jung
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