Purging Quotes

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Ain't nothing like a good cry.

I have personal issues with clutter. I, personally, am very minimalist and like a clean slate. I like to throw everything away.

These traitors have rejected God’s Chosen One…. If they are not punished the kingdom will fall into ruin.

I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

All of us must have heard about the people who call themselves the Fundamentalists. Their apparent intention is to drive out of the evangelical churches men and women of liberal opinions…. And now, in the presence of colossal problems, which must be solved in Christ’s name and for Christ’s sake, the Fundamentalists propose to drive out from the Christian churches all the consecrated souls who do not agree with their theory of inspiration. What immeasurable folly!

In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God.

There is no purging. We are following federal laws to keep our voting rolls clean. That word, purging, is outrageous.

No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)

I like getting rid of things. I really do.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.

I was originally a minimalist, so that's my foundation.

I'm good at clearing things out. If I haven't worn something for a while, I'll give it away to charity.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.