J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.

Death is the great transition.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Death is just a continuation of life.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Death is the gate of life.

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

Death's long anabasis.

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

Midway upon the journey of our life

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.