Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“They will pass away just as surely as the sun sets in the evening.”

— Anonymous

“They say that the gateway of the morning is guarded by the twin lions Sef and Duau: Yesterday and Tomorrow. If the sun were…

— Diana Wilder

“Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. 'This is a night…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

However long the night, the dawn will break.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold…

— Ivan Turgenev

One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.

— Khalil Gibran

“These summer nights are short. Going to bed before midnight is unthinkable and talk, wine, moonlight and the warm air are often in league…

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry…

— Henry David Thoreau

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

— Germaine Greer

The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept…

— Nathalia Crane

“Above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two…

— Ernesto Che Guevara