“Though you thrust a knife at my eyes, I will not flinch.”

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American writer 1958

Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer

Source: The Disorderly Knights

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse
And shut upon obscurity; my acts
Cast to their opposites by impatient violence
Break up the sequent path; they fly
On a circumference to avoid the centre.”

Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters

"Darkness And Light"
The Still Centre (1939)

“A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1994)

“I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
On Nature

“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State

The End of the Road (1982), Ch. 25 "Years of Upheaval"
1980s

“I am not old, — I cannot be old,
Though tottering, wrinkled, and gray;
Though my eyes are dim, and my marrow is cold,
Call me not old to-day.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet

The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)

“All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:
But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.
Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,
And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.
But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:
Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

Epigram 27
Venetian Epigrams (1790)

“His the knife, and mine the body
the twofold cause of suffering.
He has grasped the knife, I my body.
At which is there anger?”

Šantidéva (685–763) 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar

Bodhicaryavatara

“With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.”

René Char (1907–1988) 20th-century French poet

"Mute Game", as translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson in Guernica : a magazine of art & politics (June 2007)
Context: With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone…

“Though you thrust a knife at my eyes, I will not flinch.”

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