“Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli”
More from J.R.R. Tolkien on Life
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
“They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest.”
“This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.”
“Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.”
“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do no be too eager to deal out death in judgment.”
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Henry Miller
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Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
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Virginia Woolf
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Joseph Campbell
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
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