"It is but a shadow and a thought……" — Aragorn
"It is but a shadow and a thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek."
More Cannot Give Quotes
- I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad… — Anne Bronte
- Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. — William Wordsworth
- ...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your… — Henri Nouwen
- We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. — Benjamin Franklin
- There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to… — Cesar Chavez
- Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches… — Charles Caleb Colton
- To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give. — Tristan Bernard
- [Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take. — Christopher Fowler
- When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not… — Henri Poincare
- No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us… — Sigmund Freud
- If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln