Quotes and aphorisms about purgatory Abraham Lincoln Federica Montseny Gary Ackerman ,, You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and... Venerable Bede Charles Spurgeon Arnold Bennett Mary Wollstonecraft David Berman Mark Rylance ,, I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time... Katee Sackhoff