"Agonize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doubt it was connected with that curious and recurrent illusion which postulates in human affairs—a thing called "Progress." This illusion, though both logically and practically the enemy of reform—for if things of themselves tend to grow better, why sweat and agonize to improve them?—is none the less characteristic, generally speaking, of reforming epochs, and it was not without its hold over the minds of the American Fathers. But there were also certain definite causes, some of which they could ...
— A History of the United States • Cecil Chesterton
... are my days and nights; my sleep, my life. Yet, dying, I agonize to live, and fear to drink the last drop of that ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various
... the desolating hand of death. Alas, the ruins of the tomb! The ruins of the tomb are an emblem of the ruins of the world; when not an individual, but a universe, already marred by sin and hastening to dissolution, shall agonize and die! Directing your thoughts from the one, fix them for a moment on the other. Anticipate the concluding scene, the final catastrophe of nature, when the sign of the Son of man shall he seen in heaven; when the Son of man Himself shall appear in the glory of his Father, and send ...
— Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study • Compiled by Grenville Kleiser |
