Purgatorial Mass Quotes & Sayings

God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not. — Nick Cave

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. — Moliere

It turns out that we are one, if not ever how we expected.
And it cannot matter that outwardly nothing has changed yet. Maybe we don't even expect it to ... We may not soon be heeded, but at least we can feel the long-held rumbles, now open-throated, our lungs warmed and aching with this special use that we know may be poignant only to us. There was so little of this voicing before, and now that there is much more, we see it takes as many forms as there are people, though some don't easily align. — Chang-rae Lee

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy. — Kary Mullis

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness. — Adrienne Monnier