“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," s...” — J.R.R. Tolkien Quote

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and 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.”

““I sit beside the fire and think”

“I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”

“…stories… open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though only for a moment, we stand outside our own time, outside Time itself, maybe.” J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy Stories”

“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising”

“Before the gates of Angband filth and desolation spread southward for many miles over the wide plain of Ard-galen; but after the coming of the Sun rich grass arose there, and while Angband was besieged and its gates shut there were green things even among the pits and broken rocks before the doors of hell.”

“It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.”

“Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?”

“You only have as much time as you think you do. Start telling yourself you have enough time.”

“We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.”

“There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.”