Metum Quotes

#1. The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
[Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Ovid

#2. When people are dead, you can forgive them 'most anything.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I'm more concerned, just as you used to be, with the world as a riddle than with the riddles in the world. I'm more concerned with natural than the supernatural. And I feel more wonder for our inscrutable brain than for all these loose anecdots about the 'extrasensory'.

Jostein Gaarder

#4. Happiness is my destination.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Yes, no. I don't know. It's all so confusing. I'm just a kid."
Abuelo smiled. "You kept saying that while you told me your story, but what does it mean?"
"That I'm too young to have to be making decisions like this."
"You're never too young to do the right thing," Abuelo said.

Charles De Lint

#6. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Toni Morrison

#7. It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Abu Bakr

#8. My parents were early adopters, and I've been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier as having been written by a different person who also happens to be named 'Eliezer Yudkowsky.' I do not share his opinions.

Eliezer Yudkowsky