J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

To die is landing on some distant shore.

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

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Death is the most blessed dream.

Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

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.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

She died praying that she might die.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.