"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission was to come down alive."
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
"There’s earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
"Don’t you know my name yet? That’s the only answer. Tell me, who are you alone, yourself and nameless? But you are young and I am old. Eldest, that’s what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first acorn and the first raindrop."
The Fellowship of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
"The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
"Worst is a bad word,” I said to him, “and I hope you do not live to see it."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
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From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crownless again shall be king."
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
-
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crownless again shall be king."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
"
At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him in a spell, as soon as he began to attend to them. Almost it seemed that the words took shape, and visions of far lands and bright things that he had never yet imagined opened out before him; and the firelit hall became like a golden mist above seas of foam that sighed upon the margins of the world. Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him. Swiftly he sank under its shining weight into a deep realm of sleep.
There he wandered long in a dream of music…
"The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
"It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries, had erased all the reefs from his maps."
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
"‘You can’t ask men to attack pillboxes cold sober,’ said Finnerty.
‘And you can’t ask them to stop when they’re drunk,’ said Paul."
‘And you can’t ask them to stop when they’re drunk,’ said Paul."
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
