Quotes By J.R.R. Tolkien

“ It is best to love first what you are fitted to love. ”

“ I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. ”

“ Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter. ”

“ There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death, by the divine paradox, that which ends life and demands the surrender of all. ”

“ Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. ”

“ Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. ”