Then why seek to agonize my heart with what I would gladly forget?
Then the appetite for something stronger would be stimulated, and draught after draught of brandy would follow, until when night came, he would return home to agonize the heart of his wife with a new pang, keener than any that had gone before.
Such torments in the drear abodes of hell, Where sad despair laments with rueful yell,-- Such torments agonize the damned breast.
But all this sensitive human organism is hers that at last she may agonizein it, bleed from it from a thousand wounds, be lifted up in it to draw all men to her cross.
It must sink deeper and rise higher, it must feel more acutely, it must agonize and triumph more abundantly, if it truly comes from God and is to minister to men, since His thoughts are higher than ours and His Love more burning.
To that extent we, as much as he, are to blame for his crime and we must never cease to agonize for him and for such as he.
The great souls come and go and agonize and cry in the wilderness, and the little souls determine what shall be.
