Recoil Quotes
Titus Lucretius Carus (1866). “De rerum natura libri sex with nołes and a translation by H. A. J. Munro: II”, p.144
Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist
Song: Some Kinda Love
John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.158, Wordsworth Editions