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Dead Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the…
- Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from…
- One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often…
- It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong;…
- You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the…
- Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the…
- The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
- Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his…
- Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
- Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails…
- The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The…
- And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon