J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

Men, today we die a little.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

The war has carried mourning into almost every home … it can almost be said that the heavens are hung in black

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

It is not easy to talk about peace to people who are mourning every day.

My sons are ready to die. Your sons still want to live.