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Quotes About Purging

ABLUENT  (A'BLUENT)   adj.[abluens, Lat. from abluo, to wash away.]1. That which washes clean.2. That which has the power of cleansing.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
So do the Winds, and Thunders cleanse the Air: So working Seas settle and purge the Wine; So lop't and pruned Trees do flourish fair, So doth the Fire the drossy Gold refine.
~ John Davies
purging trial, fidelities through storm, perseverance through mediocrities, and pursuit of Divine destiny through the allurements of earth.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
~ Max Lerner
When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.
~ Amanda Seyfried
sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame.
~ Gillian Flynn
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
~ Rachael Taylor
Death like style is the removal of rubbish.
~ Will Durant
There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.
~ Steven Hardesty
In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.
~ Beth Moore
Purging was part of his grieving process—
~ Harlan Coben
Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I've always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
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?'
~ Fergie
Why is crying so pleasurable? I feel clean, absolutely purged after it. As if I had a grief to get over with, some deep sorrow.
~ Sylvia Plath
Some people—like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair—just needed to be removed.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I felt pure the way you feel after you vomit, kind of light and strangely holy, like having taken a sauna in hell.
~ Michelle Tea
Stoon savored the memory. It gave him an undeniable satisfaction. There were many others like it, but none that provided such a clear sense of fulfillment. Drust Chazhul had been a monster, bereft of any sense of moral obligation or purpose in life. He had only wanted to achieve power and then hang on to it. Such men were plentiful and always replaceable. Such men needed purging, and when the chance came to remove one, it was an opportunity to be exploited.
~ Terry Brooks
It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
~ Maynard James Keenan
Abd-el-Wahab, and his followers, known as Wahabees, soon spread over the length and breadth of the Mohammedan world, purging Islam of its sloth and rekindling the fervor of olden days. Thus began the great Mohammedan Revival. That
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
Remorse is not for the elderly. When it comes to them, it is not purging or uplifting, but merely degrading and wretched, like a bladder disease.
~ Christopher Isherwood
calcination
~ Umberto Eco
It's a disgusting process, emptying our stomachs.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde