Famous quotes containing the word seized:
“Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“It was something like love
From another world that seized her
From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head
Out of dew, without ever looking, her best
Self to that great need.”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)